On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:09:41 -0500, Goomba38 >
wrote:

>Dawn wrote:
>
>> How brown was the flour paste that you made with the butter? It should
>> have been golden, any darker than that and you will get a burned taste
>> from it.
>>
>> Also, did you scrape anything out of the bottom of the roasting pan
>> that was burned? Sometimes bits of stuff in the pan get completely
>> blackened before the bird gives up juices and fat, and the flavor
>> mingles in the drippings.
>>
>
>Why use butter at all for turkey gravy?? That's what the drippings are
>supposed to be for.

Because I didn't have enough fat to cook the flour. It got dried out.

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