Goldenfry Cheese Sauce - 250g

In a British kitchen, cheese sauce is a working sauce. It is not there to impress anybody. It is there so the vegetables get eaten, and Goldenfry has been sitting on cupboard shelves doing exactly that for years.

People in Canada go looking for it because they want that particular taste, the one that turns up on a roast dinner plate or a dish of macaroni cheese and tastes like being twelve. Making a cheese sauce from scratch is fine. It is just not the one you remember.

This is a 250g pack, and it lives in the cupboard happily until you need it, which in most houses means Sunday. Follow the pack, pour it over cauliflower or broccoli, stir it through pasta, or put it in a jug and let everyone help themselves. The jug never comes back full.

Goldenfry is best known in Britain for its gravy and its batter mix, and the gravy is the obvious partner here. A roast with gravy on one side and cheese sauce on the other is the sort of plate people leave the country and then miss for decades.