Originally Posted by Oldfart

It was simple food, from a time when meat was rationed harder than butter. Fill the guts and all is good.

I can just remember my dad having bread and dripping as an indulgence. For those of you in camp vegetable oil, roasts and baked vegetables used to be cooked in animal fat. This was reclaimed into a pot for reuse (who recycles canola or olive oil?). A significant amount of the flavoursome tiny bits floated to the surface of the dripping and after the dripping had cooled, the top scrapings became an irresistable bread topping.