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Originally Posted by 70oldsW30
[color=black][font=Verdana]...My mom always said about how to make gumbo was "first, you make a roux". Right. Whatever that is, mom.
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When you mix some flour in a frying pan of leftover grease from frying chicken or pork chops or some kind of meat and then add some milk or cream and let it boil, that is rue (roux). Add some more milk and you have gravy, don't add milk and you can use it for stock to make almost anything, soup, gumbo, etc. You could substitute water or cooking wine for the milk.