"MG" > wrote in message
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>>>>> I expect you know that you need very good gravy to serve with it
>>>> This is another thing that I don't understand. Is gravy a sort of
>>>> meat sauce?
>>>> If yes, how do you eat? Do you put it over the puddings?
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>>> Yes Yes I suppose you can call it a meat sauce
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>> Oh! So I can call "Ragù"
>> Pandora
>>>
> No Pandora, ragu is sauce with meat in it (at least that's what my
> mother says)...gravy is often made using the juices left in the bottom
> of the roasting pan when you have cooked a roast meat, you drain off
> some of the fat, add flour to make a roux and scrape up all the yummy
> bits in the pan, then add liquid (water, stock, whatever) to make the
> gravy

Ahh excellent description