Morrisons Bolognese Sauce Mix - 42g

Sauce mix sachets are the quiet workhorses of the British midweek tea. They live in a drawer with the gravy and the stock cubes, and they get pulled out on the nights when nobody has the energy for a cookbook. Morrisons, the Bradford supermarket, puts its own name on this one.

People in Canada go looking for it because a bolognese is never just a bolognese. The one you grew up on had a particular taste, and your kids, or your own stomach, can tell the difference straight away. This is that taste in a packet.

It is a dry mix in a flat sachet, light enough to forget about and happy to sit in the cupboard until you need it. Brown your mince, add the mix and water as the back of the packet tells you, and let it bubble. Some people stretch it into a lasagne, and nobody has ever complained.

Most people pick up a few at once, because one sachet is one pan and spag bol night comes round faster than you think. Plenty also fill the rest of the basket with whatever else from the British cupboard they have been missing.