milk gravy

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of milk gravy

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805

Example Sentences

But it also has biscuits with pastrami and milk gravy, kugel-ified mac and cheese, and pumpkin-spice babka.

From Salon • May 17, 2021

Congressman Clare Hoffman of Michi gan advocated a Spartan wartime diet for Congress: "cornmeal mush and a baked potato without butter or even milk gravy."

From Time Magazine Archive

We sat down to one of our familiar dinners of salt pork and milk gravy and apple pie now enriched by sweet pickles and preserves and frosted cake.

From The Light in the Clearing by Bacheller, Irving

Fortune stew was a dish of small, round blue potatoes, served perfectly whole in a milk gravy.

From Cape Cod Folks by Greene, Sarah P. McLean

That is true; it takes an artist or a mother to fry salt pork and make milk gravy.

From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams