Lyle's Dessert Syrup Chocolate - 325g

Lyle's is one of those names every British kitchen cupboard seems to have been born with. The golden syrup does the porridge and the flapjacks, and the dessert syrups look after the pudding course, with chocolate being the one that tends to vanish first.

People in Canada go looking for this because they remember the label more than they remember the recipe. You can describe a chocolate syrup to anyone. You cannot describe the feeling of seeing the Lyle's name on the table at pancake time, so it is easier to just have it in the cupboard.

This is the 325g size, which covers a good few rounds of pancakes before anyone has to ask who finished it. Keep the lid on and it lives happily in the cupboard between uses. Pour it over a warm sponge, stir it into a glass of cold milk, or let the kids loose on a plate of crêpes and accept the consequences.

It sits nicely alongside the rest of the Lyle's family, so people often pick it up with a tin of the golden syrup or a black treacle for a weekend of baking.