Christian fasting is a test to see what desires control us. Fasting reveals the measure of food’s mastery over us – or television or computers or whatever we submit to again and again to conceal the weakness of our hunger for God. A real lived-out human act of preference for God over His gifts is the actual lived-out glorification of God’s excellence for which He created the world. Fasting is not the only way, or the main way, that we glorify God in preferring Him above His gifts. But it is one way.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Seasoning	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

8	c	All-purpose flour
4	c	Cooking oil

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix flour and oil together in a heavy ovenproof container. Place on center
shelf in preheated 400&deg; oven.  Bake at this temperature for 1-1/2 to 2
hours. Set timer, and stir roux every 15 minutes. Roux should be a caramel
color when done. Remove from oven, cool, transfer to containers with
tight-fitting lids and store in refrigerator until need ed. Roux may also
be frozen. Yield: enough roux for 4 to 6 pots of gumbo.
MAKES 1 RECIPE, ENOUGH FOR 4-6
POTS OF GUMBO!
From <The Progressive Farmer's Southern Country Cookbook>, by the editors
of the 'Progressive Farmer Magazine'.  Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe
Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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