milk gravy

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of milk gravy¹

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805

Example Sentences

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

From 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?

From Project Gutenberg

Is there anything better under the sun than fried salt pork and milk gravy?

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

There was smear-case too, milk gravy and sauce made of English currants.

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

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