Princes Prunes in Light Syrup - 420g

Tinned fruit has a proper seat at the British table. Prunes sit right alongside the peaches and the fruit cocktail on the pudding shelf, and prunes and custard is a combination half the country can taste just by reading the words.

Nobody in Canada searches for prunes by accident. You are after the bowl your mum put down in front of you, from the tin with the Princes name on it, because that is the one that tastes like being twelve and told to finish your pudding.

It is a 420g tin of prunes in light syrup, ready to eat the moment the lid comes off, and it happily waits in the cupboard until you want it. Once it is open, tip what is left into a covered dish in the fridge, like any tinned fruit. Serve them cold over yoghurt, warm with custard, or stirred through porridge or a rice pudding.

Princes fills a lot of British cupboards, from fruit to fish, so the prunes rarely travel alone. Most people who pick up a tin also reach for something to pour over it, and custard usually wins that argument.