milk gravy


noun
  1. a gravy or sauce made from cooking fat, milk, flour, and seasonings.

Origin of milk gravy

1
An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805

Words Nearby milk gravy

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How to use milk gravy in a sentence

  • Take canned pork brain in milk gravy: Each can boasts 1,170 percent of your daily cholesterol.

    The Weirdest Food Trend Ever | Robert Rosenthal | July 15, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • What's the use of buying tinsel and flim-flam when you're eating milk gravy to save butter and using salt sacks for handkerchiefs?

    Christmas | Zona Gale
  • Is there anything better under the sun than fried salt pork and milk gravy?

    The Fat of the Land | John Williams Streeter
  • That is true; it takes an artist or a mother to fry salt pork and make milk gravy.

    The Fat of the Land | John Williams Streeter
  • There was smear-case too, milk gravy and sauce made of English currants.

    Vandemark's Folly | Herbert Quick
  • Fortune stew was a dish of small, round blue potatoes, served perfectly whole in a milk gravy.

    Cape Cod Folks | Sarah P. McLean Greene