Beech’s Dark Chocolate Ginger Thins - 150g

Chocolate and ginger is an old British pairing, the kind that sits on a nan's sideboard next to the good biscuits. Thins have their own place too: passed round with coffee, polite to offer, impossible to stop at one.

People in Canada go looking for these because they remember a particular box from a particular house. It is not a craving for chocolate in general. It is that snap of dark chocolate, then the warmth of ginger arriving a second later.

The box holds 150g of thins, flat enough to slide into a cupboard and come out again when the kettle goes on. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from the radiator, and it will behave. They work after dinner, with a strong coffee, or as the thing you take round when you're invited somewhere.

Beech's is better known in Britain for chocolate creams, the rose, violet and peppermint sort, and the ginger thins sit happily alongside them. People tend to pick up a box of creams for someone else and keep the ginger for themselves.