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Default Thanksgiving Gravy Nightmares

skyhooks wrote:
> Ward Abbott wrote:
>>
>> Why does everyone have horror stories about making gravy? We all
>> know how to make a perfect béchamel sauce which is the basic,
>> classic sauce technique.
>>
>> I hear these "MIL" stories and I can't comprehend WHY gravy
>> continues to be an issue.

>
> For some peculiar and strange reasons, my former MIL put chopped hard
> boiled egg in her milky turkey gravy. Thankfully, T-day happened once
> only at her house (whew!), and notice that "former" is the key word!
>
> Sky, who still shudders when recalling that episode of T-day


Whoa, that plus the cornstarch mucilage story explains a lot, I must say.