Hokey Pokey

Hokey Pokey is a Cornish term for honeycomb. These super yummy golden shards can be eaten on their own or crumbled into the best vanilla / butterscotch ice cream. It is also the perfect present to take to a dinner party. Better than flowers, as they need to be put into a vase, better than chocolate, which people tend to smile politely at, but put away in a drawer. No one can resist a bit of hokey pokey (adults & kids alike). The quantities specified here don't make a whole lot - enough to fill a little tin - but any more and you'd be sued by your dentist, mother & gym instructor.

Ingredients:

• 100 grams caster sugar
• 4 tablespoons golden syrup (available at any gourmet store)
• 1 ½ teaspoons bicarbonate of soda

Method:

Put the sugar and syrup into a saucepan and stir together to mix. You mustn't stir once the pan's on the heat, though. Place the pan on the heat and let the mixture first melt, then turn to goo and then to a bubbling mass the colour of maple syrup - this will take 3 minutes or so. Off the heat, whisk in the bicarbonate of soda and watch the syrup turn into a whooshing cloud of aerated pale gold. Turn this immediately onto a piece of reusable baking parchment or greased foil. Leave until set and then bash at it, so that it splinters into many glinting pieces. Crumble over your choice of ice cream or nibble as it is…DIG IN !!!