Like you I grew up with Sunday roasts. Cooked in a coal range to I might add. The smell of a roast cooking in the coal range is just magic. The smell of any roast cooking brings back many happy memories of my childhood. Mum made gravy the same way you do & she taught all her children (9 of us) to do the same.
Packet gravy just doesn’t taste the same – I only use them on the odd occasion.
Despite all the health experts telling us how bad it is to use dripping to cook roast I still do & they just don’t taste the same if you don’t.
]]>