Talk:Red-eye gravy

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Flour

I've never seen anyone who knew what they were doing thicken red-eye gravy with flour (or anything else, for that matter). Can anyone who grew up in the South verify that anyone actually does this?

Maybe yankees fix it that way, like putting sugar in cornbread.

I've lived in the South all of my life, and my Father, who is an excellent cook, learned how to make Red Eye Gravy from his mother and I've learned from him. No, we don't add flour. In fact, the reason I was told it was "red eye" was because when you put the country ham drippings in a bowl, it looks like a red eye. We don't add anything and it is yummy with some good southern buscuits! Although if my Granddaddy was making it, he would add the coffee.

To me, gravy means jus with flour, and if it doesn't have flour, its just jus. (French for Juice)

It's called red eye because the coffee keeps you up at night.

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The flour is added to the ham grease drippings to make a white gravy, not a red-eye gravy. The white gravy is then peppered.

-Wayne County, Mississippi

Indeed. Anyone who found that this page does not describe the food they were looking for, is probably looking for sawmill gravy. I'm adding that as a "See Also"... ExOttoyuhr (talk) 23:14, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Mississippi variation uses red wine in the place of coffee.

What is your reference? I am a native Mississippian and I've never heard of it. Many Mississippians are opposed to the use of alcohol on religious grounds. Historically, wine has not been widely available. When alcohol has been available, it has usually been corn whiskey. Maybe you found one recipe for it somewhere, but that does not support this generalization.BinkyGee (talk) 02:23, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]