Comfort Food

This is guaranteed to make you feel better on a cold, miserable summer's day.

Buy as many tins of condensed milk as will fit on the base of your largest saucepan (a bargain at £1 a tin). Cover the tins with water and simmer for 3 - 4 hours. Hey presto you have the most glorious, unctuous caramel sauce which makes a fab topping for ice-cream, yoghurt, fruit or in dire emergency straight out of the tin. We have tried it with the lo-sugar version without success.

Regrettably I had to open a tin in order to take this shot. Don't know what I'm going to do with the spoon. Hey ho, the things we blippers do for art!

NB no liability accepted for exploding tins which if you google 'condensed milk caramel' seems to be a risk. So far I've got away with it!