On gravy day – inspired by the Australian Christmas classic – share your recipes for the perfect gravy
Paul Kelly’s How to Make Gravy has become an Australian Christmas classic. The song captures the poignant phone call made by a man in jail to his brother on 21 December, as he ruefully ponders what the rest of the family will be doing on Christmas Day without him. The song is widely beloved because it both powerfully evokes the longing and regret of an incarcerated man, the loving-yet-brittle relationships between family members, as well as conjuring the quintessentially Australian Christmas experience (“they say it’s gonna be a hundred degrees, even more maybe, but that won’t stop the roast”).
Its emotional and aesthetic punch aside, the song also features a handy little gravy recipe for anyone stuck in front of a stove at Christmas, trying to remember what to toss in the meat pan to make the gravy.
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