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My grandma's gravy was always lumpy... until I tried her coffee filter trick
I spent years making gravy from her old recipe card but it always came out with those tiny flour lumps. Last Thanksgiving I was about to toss the whole pot when I remembered a note she scribbled on the back. She said to line a strainer with a paper coffee filter and pour the gravy through it. I tried it and it caught every single lump in about 30 seconds flat. Now I can make her chicken gravy without whisking myself into a frenzy. Anyone else find a weird kitchen hack hidden in an old family recipe?
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rileyjones4mo ago
So I had a similar thing happen with my mom's cornbread dressing recipe... she wrote "don't overmix or else" on the back of an old church cookbook page and I never understood why until my first Thanksgiving hosting. I beat that batter like it owed me money and the dressing came out like a brick of cornmeal. Next time I barely stirred it and it turned out light and fluffy just like hers. Sometimes those old handwritten notes are worth more than the actual recipe...
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fisher.mason3mo ago
Hot take... overmixing anything with flour is a gamble you don't wanna take. Grandma knew what she was doing.
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faithb784mo ago
Same with mixing concrete or drywall mud - too much beating ruins the texture every time, @rileyjones.
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