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Janet wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> In article >,
> says...
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 11:33:59 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 12:58:37 AM UTC-10, Alan
> > > Holbrook wrote:
> > >> Every once in a while, when I get the feeling that my arteries
> > are still >> too flexible and my heart isn't working hard enough
> > pumping blood, I'll >> make a large skillet of sawmill gravy and
> > pour it over biscuits for >> breakfast. The recipe I follow says,
> > as do all the other recipes I've seen >> that involve making a
> > white sauce, that once you have the roux the color >> you want, you
> > should take the pan off the heat to add the milk. I've often >>
> > wondered why that is and what would happen if you added the milk
> > directly >> to the pan containing the roux while it's still on the
> > burner. Rather than >> risk seven years' bad luck or something
> > similar trying it, I thought I'd >> ask. Can any of the RFC
> > intelligentsia enlighten me?
> > >
> > > I'm not going to tell you how to make white sauce - that's a
> > > personal choice. OTOH, being able to make a white sauce should be
> > > a requirement for graduation from high school.
> >
> > For your entertainment, I will now tell you how my sister-in-law
> > makes cheese sauce.
> >
> > For best results, get half wasted before beginning.
> >
> > Get the smallest saucepan you own - I think the one she uses is two
> > cups - and fill it up with cold milk. Add a couple spoons of
> > cornstarch and stir. This is the "bechamel" part. The only time she
> > makes this is when she needs cheese sauce for broccoli. So she
> > grates some cheap mild cheddar and adds this to the pot of cold
> > milk. There is no salt in this, because salt is Bad For You. Then
> > she turns the stove on low and waits for it to get hot, stirring a
> > few times while it's warming up. When the whole thing boils over
> > and gets all over the stove, it's done.
> >
> LOL. Another SIL cooking saga.
>
> The first year we were married my SIL A unexpectedly invited us to
> Christmas dinner. When we arrived we found out why; she said
> "Boyfriend and I are going out for a drink with friends, you're not
> invited. You can look after the grandparents (one blind, one senile)
> and cook dinner. Byeee". It was all raw; she had prepared nothing.
>
> SIL and her BF rolled home drunk hours later, just as dinner was
> ready. J and I served the dinner for six we had cooked, on the table
> we had laid to SIL who had invited us as guests. Demented Granny said
> to SIL "What a lovely meal you have made, A, you must have been
> slaving for hours" and SIL smirked and said "Thanks, Gran, you're
> welcome".
>
> Janet UK
>
>

Ohh man, that sucks! But had the SIL been honest, it would have been a
fair outing break for them and you'd have probably agreed to give them
a day break I'm guessing.

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