gravy browning
 

How do I make gravy browning? My Brit husband says it's something you buy in
the store.. well it's not in stores here and I'd rather make it if I can anyway.

Why does my Brit husband complain so about the gravy in the USA? What's the
difference in Brit and American gravy??

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I don't know the specifics, but I do know my husband won't even try the
standard white gravy served in restaurants with breakfast items. He says
he's never had white gravy and it looks "horrible", so I took that to mean he's used to brown gravy, like what I associated with being served with a meat and mashed potaotes. Maybe that's what your husband is talking about. You can buy packages you can make up or buy it in a jar. Take him to the store and show him both and see what he wants is my suggestion!

Dawn

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Bisto.
We don't have anything like it in the US, unless you can find some Bisto brand powder.
The closest thing is the powdered mix in the spice section of the grocery. Sorta like au jus would be made from.
The best part of the difference is that Bisto has no extra calories ;)

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Jim picked up something in the supermarket once to make the gravy "brown" ... his, not mine. He used it once and promptly threw it away. Yucky and used by people who don't know how to make gravy.

I don't use anything other than the drippings from the meat and if needed beef boullion cubes for added flavoring or color.

However, our supermarkets now have an Irish section which sells Bisto and other UK type foods and the dreaded curry. Sorry folks but anything that looks like the end product of an infant's loose stool doesn't cut it for me in the food department :-)

You can look for stores online that sell UK foodstuffs and will mail it to you.

BTW that white gravy is pitiful.

Rete

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Try here:

http://www.britishdelights.com/

http://www.wisechoiceuk.com/

http://goodwoods.com/?OVRAW=British%...OVMTC=standard

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But then again, you don't have to have gravy with every freakin' meal, like some people I know.

White gravy is for chicken fried steak, period. And that's a once in a blue moon indulgence anyway, and has to be from the right truck stop ;)

Ooh, wait, biscuit & gravy breakfast? My neighborhood Greek diner does a pretty decent version of that... Guess who never got lunch today?

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LOL okay I will admit perhaps there are some good white gravies out there and some appropriate things to eat it with. But for me? Unless it was only to sample, I would not order it myself.

3 squares a day? Hmmm since dad was hospitalized on Thursday I have existed on one a day which goes against the ADA approach to stablizing blood glucose. At least his prognosis is better and a nursing home might be a few more months in the future rather than the end of the week. God willing he will spend one more Christmas at home.

Rete

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My local A+P supermarket has started selling "Bisto" in the international foods section for $8.99 for a small tub which is daylight robbery imho.

A cheaper alternative is to buy gravy from the "Heinz homestyle" range and doctor it up with meat juices etc, tastes almost like the real thing.

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On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:27:56 +0000, in alt.visa.us.marriage-based meauxna
<member1851@british_expats.com> wrote:

    >> How do I make gravy browning? My Brit husband says it's something you
    >> buy in
    >> the store.. well it's not in stores here and I'd rather make it if I
    >> can anyway.
    >> Why does my Brit husband complain so about the gravy in the USA?
    >> What's the
    >> difference in Brit and American gravy??
    >Bisto.
    >We don't have anything like it in the US, unless you can find some Bisto
    >brand powder.
    >The closest thing is the powdered mix in the spice section of the
    >grocery. Sorta like au jus would be made from.
    >The best part of the difference is that Bisto has no extra calories ;)


I just found the ingredients to BISTO brown gravy mix:

Corn starch, Caramel, Salt, Wheat starch, Soya flour, Hydrolyzed plant protein,
Torula yeast, Carrot and Onion powders.


I wonder what in that list makes it so wonderful?

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On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:35:11 -0800, [email protected] wrote:

    >Why does my Brit husband complain so about the gravy in the USA? What's the
    >difference in Brit and American gravy??

A couple of Christmases back a friend visiting declined the soup before
dinner, it was in fact my wife's American gravy, and I use the term gravy in
its loosest sense.

It being the Christmas season if you care to email me of list an address I'll
send you a small quantity of British Bisto gravy mix, so you can see. My wife
still doesn't think its gravy after 8 years.

-
Lansbury
www.uk-air.net
FAQs for the alt.travel.uk.air newsgroup

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There is a product you can find in the grocery store called Brown Bouquet........it's for browning gravy and adds just a very small hint of flavor....Where I live, it is sold on the aisle where the spices and seasonings are.


Also, I have to add, even though I spent a substantial amount of time in England living with my hubby, all he liked was Bisto, and while it IS good, nothing beats gravy from scratch! ( and yes, I have several jars of it in my pantry now, Roasted Chicken is my fave!!)

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Why not make it from a rue, and darken the rue (butter/grease=flour in 2:1 ratio) to the desired darkness? You can make anything from white milk gravy to the darkest gravy you want.

If what we had in Gibraltar is representative of British gravy (Yorkshire pudding balls soaked in some dark, sweet nasty sh*t) is typical of British Gravy... I fail to see what all the fuss is about...US home made gravy beats the pants off that awful goop!!

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The brown colour would be derived from the caramel, E150...

Can be made naturally, from sugar.

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Sorry, just looked, its called Kitchen Bouquet!!!

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I have actually gotten my Brit DH to eat Country Fried Steak with the white gravy on potato and meat at Cracker Barrel. He has tried biscuits and gravy but not on his "must have" list.
What amazes me is he NEVER seasons anything-no salt or pepper. In fact he doesn't even like pepper, but he likes his curry!!!