"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, "Janet Bostwick"
> > wrote:
>> Now I know for sure that you are from the mid-West. No one else I
>> know uses potato water to make gravy.
>
>> Janet
>
> Yer kidding! Waste not, want not.
> --
> -Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com>

Oh, I agree. I am from the mid-West, and I do use potato water for gravy.
It's just that I've spent all of my adult life being defensive about it and
converting a few. Potato water was always used to deglaze the pans from all
the big roasts and birds. Until I moved west, I assumed everyone did it
that way.
Janet