Lyle's Dessert Syrup Butterscotch - 325g

Lyle's is one of those names that lives in almost every British cupboard, mostly thanks to the golden syrup tin with the lion on it. The dessert syrups are the same family pointed firmly at pudding: for pouring over things, not stirring into a cake mix.

People in Canada go looking for this one because of a very particular memory. Butterscotch over ice cream after Sunday lunch, or poured over a warm sponge at your nan's. It is the Lyle's version they remember, and that is the one they want.

It is a 325g syrup that sits happily in the cupboard between puddings. Drizzle it over pancakes or waffles, swirl it through porridge, pour it over ice cream, or use it to rescue a sponge that came out a touch dry. Nobody needs to know.

It tends to go home alongside a tin of Lyle's Golden Syrup for the baking side of things, and often a pack of custard, because a pudding that is only half sorted is not really sorted.