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It’s neither Polish nor cake but it is very good and should you feel that you don’t have enough butter and syrup in your diet then it will do the job admirably. Take it round to friends’ and offer it as pudding. Nibble a piece after dinner. But be sure to make enough because you will want more.

Preparation time: 10 minutes plus refrigeration time
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Skill level: easy

Ingredients

• digestive biscuits - most of a big packet
• butter - a good slab
• golden syrup - two large spoonfuls
• Fairtrade plain chocolate of the highest cocoa percentage - 200g

Take the digestives and put them in a plastic bag (a freezer bag perhaps, one without holes in definitely) and bash them to within an inch of their biscuity lives. Next put the butter in a pan over a low heat and melt it. Then add the syrup to the butter and, once it has liquified sufficiently, add the digestives and stir until they are well and truly coated in the butter/syrup. The mixture should be fairly much sticking to itself with a few crumbly exceptions. Remove from heat.

Meanwhile in a concurrent fashion, take the chocolate and break it up into little pieces and put in a heat-proof glass bowl. Boil a pan of water and place the bowl of chocolate bits over it. The chocolate should all melt fairly quickly, but give it a good stir to be sure.

Now butter a low slung (2.5cm high) tin. Spread the biscuit mixture therein and cover with the melted chocolate - evenly and right to the sides ensuring not a single bit of biscuit remains uncovered.

Put in the fridge to cool/solidify.

Keep looking to see if it’s ready yet.

When it is, eat it.

Verdict: Crunchy, crumbly, chocolatey.

Drink: More red wine after a fine lunch round GnLnD’s.

Entertainment: A random selection of singles chosen randomly by colour. See Drink.