{"id":11001,"date":"2025-11-27T10:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=11001"},"modified":"2025-11-27T10:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:25:17","slug":"how-to-make-gravy-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/how-to-make-gravy-from-scratch.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Gravy from Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Because you know you should!\u00a0 Learn how to make gravy from scratch with pan drippings (or butter) with this quick and easy recipe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>pan drippings from roasted chicken\/turkey or 1\/4 cup butter<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 c flour<\/li>\n<li>2 c chicken stock or broth<\/li>\n<li>salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Pour pan drippings into a 2 cup measuring cup.<\/li>\n<li>Scrap the browned bits the cup.<\/li>\n<li>Skim and reserve fat from drippings.<\/li>\n<li>Pour 1\/4 cup of the fat into a medium saucepan. If you don\u2019t have 1\/4 cup fat, add enough butter to equal 1\/4 cup.<\/li>\n<li>Set over medium heat.<\/li>\n<li>Whisk in flour. Continue cooking for 1 to 2 minutes, whisking constantly.<\/li>\n<li>Add stock or broth to the\u00a0 drippings in the measuring cup to equal 2 cups.<\/li>\n<li>Slowly whisk in stock mixture until fully incorporated.<\/li>\n<li>Cook, stirring frequently, over medium heat until thickened and bubbly,<\/li>\n<li>Cook and stir 1 minute more.<\/li>\n<li>Season to taste with salt and pepper.<\/li>\n<li>Correct color with Kitchen Boquet<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol id=\"mntl-sc-block_19-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"><\/ol>\n<p><strong>Servings: <\/strong>8 &#8211;\u00a02 cups<br \/>\n<strong>Source:\u00a0 <\/strong>Allrecipes Test Kitchen, modifications GK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol id=\"mntl-sc-block_19-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">\n<li>The longer you cook the flour, the more toasted it becomes. The more toasted your flour is the thinner your gravy will be and the more of a rich nutty flavor you will get.<\/li>\n<li>Add any flavor, fat, or liquid you want to. This recipe is all about the ratio of fat to flour to liquid.<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019d like a bolder flavor, you can season the gravy however you like. Our experts suggest lemon pepper, poultry seasoning, garlic, rosemary, or thyme.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because you know you should!\u00a0 Learn how to make gravy from scratch with pan drippings (or butter) with this quick and easy recipe. Ingredients: pan drippings from roasted chicken\/turkey or 1\/4 cup butter 1\/4 c flour 2 c chicken stock or broth salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste Directions: Pour pan drippings into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/how-to-make-gravy-from-scratch.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Make Gravy from Scratch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/@three_star_dave\/115622826494807694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11006,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions\/11006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}