Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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   1      cup           broth & defatted drippings
   2      teaspoons     all purpose flour
   1      teaspoon      cornstarch
   1      teaspoon      ketchup
   1      pinch         salt
   1      pinch         freshly ground pepper
   1      pinch         basil (beef) or sage (chick)

Preparation:

A waist-watcher gravy - quite thin. Serve over meat or potatoes. Cook up bones as for soup, strain liquid. Refrigerate overnight or until white fat on top can be removed with a spoon. Refrigerate meat drippings from the pan and skim off the fat. Combine broth, flour and cornstarch in a screw-top jar, cover and shake until well combined or use a blender for a larger batch. Pour into saucepan, stir in ketchup, salt, pepper and basil for beef (or sage for turkey, or other herb of your choice). Stir-cook over medium heat until gravy thickens. (Mine didn't thicken but I had some lumps of flour or cornstarch.) Makes about 1 cu