Tomato Gravy
Ingredients
- ¼ cup onion finely diced
- 2 T. bacon drippings or butter
- 3 T. flour
- 1½ cups tomato juice or canned stewed tomatoes including liquid, finely diced
- ½ cup milk or half and half
- 2 tsp. brown sugar
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cook onion in bacon drippings until the onion is golden in color.
- Add the flour and stir constantly for 30 seconds.
- Add the tomato juice or tomatoes and liquid in a steady stream, stirring constantly.
- Next add the milk or half and half and brown sugar and continue to stir until mixture thickens.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
Notes & Wine Advice
Tomato Gravy is tasty served over Scrapple, cornmeal mush, biscuits, or fried eggs and toast.