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Cooking & Baking

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1. The point of white sauce is to be a background for whatever else you do to it.

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 02:33 AM

Nov 2015

The only way to imitate something proprietary is to do the basic white sauce prep and try adding spices to it.

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White sauce help needed.... [View all] Grey Nov 2015 OP

White sauces are that French basic everybody needs to master Warpy Nov 2015 #2

That is what the waitress said, Grey Nov 2015 #3

Who knows what they added to a 50 gallon vat of the stuff Warpy Nov 2015 #5

Country fried steak is usually served with "cream" gravy. Solly Mack Nov 2015 #4

I think the "liquidy" comes when you add the liquid... Thor_MN Nov 2015 #10

I seldom follow the equal amounts rule when making "cream" gravy. Solly Mack Nov 2015 #11

Nutmeg is a very common addition to a white sauce. Cracklin Charlie Nov 2015 #6

I did a search for bechamel sauce, Grey Nov 2015 #7

Having had all night to think Grey Nov 2015 #12

I think chive would be delicious. Cracklin Charlie Nov 2015 #16

One thing I learned in cooking school Nac Mac Feegle Nov 2015 #14

Tabasco - Yes! dem in texas Nov 2015 #19

Allrecipes has several country gravy recipes. PADemD Nov 2015 #9

I have been through Allrecipes several times, Grey Nov 2015 #13

real country gravy Kali Nov 2015 #15

Well, it wasn't real country gravy I made tonight Grey Nov 2015 #17

Cool, Thanks Grey Nov 2015 #20