Roux and file' (was RE: [Sca-cooks] Turkey day odds and ends)

[Gorgeous Muiredach]

At 08:22 AM 12/4/2002, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Liadan" <Liadan at sbcglobal.net>
> > Phlip,
> > According to my book, it ain't gumbo without the okra! But
>supposedly
> > file powder is a carcinogen (sp?). I was making the roux over medium
> > heat, trying to keep it from burning.  I guess bowling the day
>before
> > was a bad idea.
> > Liadan
>
>Chocolate/Brick/Dark roux is a time intensive process relative to a
>blond roux.  It can take 30 minutes of your attention to make and not
>scorch.

Food for thought.  Brown the flour in the oven, without the fat.  Has two
advantages.  Easier and requires less attention and stirring, and like that
you don't cook the fat so long, which was at one point anyway, considered
carcinogenic.

Gorgeous Muiredach the Odd
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