Notes. 1  For a quick gluten-free gravy, while the roast is cooking, heat 2 Tbsp of butter/fat in a sauce pan. 2  If you are making the roast ahead of time, it is a great idea to use the broth left in the roasting pan to make this gravy as directed above. 3  Stretch this meal by braising extra root veggies on the side.
The remaining part of the original water molecule is called a hydroxide ion (negative charge because it kept an extra electron, shorthand = OH-). Although present at very low levels in solution, H+ and OH- ions can have enormous effects on the properties of a solution, especially when they are not in balance. In pure water, every hydroxide ion that forms creates a hydrogen ion, so there are equal numbers of anions and cations.
Other molecules, however, have the ability to donate or accept hydrogen ions. Consequently, when other substances are dissolved in water, the concentrations of H+ and OH- can change. As the concentration of hydrogen ions increases, the concentration of free hydroxide ions decreases in order to maintain an equilibrium.