Morrisons Ready to serve Custard - 400g

In Britain, custard is not a dessert so much as the reason for dessert. It turns up after Sunday lunch, it holds the pudding course together, and arguments about skin or no skin have outlasted marriages.

The search usually starts the same way. You have made the crumble, the kitchen smells right, and then it hits you that there is nothing to pour over it. Ready to serve means no powder, no whisking and no lumps, just the taste you remember from the jug on the table.

A 400g pack covers a crumble for four, with a polite fight over the last of it. It sits happily in the cupboard until you need it, then goes in the fridge once opened. Heat it gently in a pan or the microwave, or pour it cold. Trifle makers, take note.

It tends to land in the basket next to a steamed sponge pudding, a tin of golden syrup or whatever rhubarb has turned up in the garden. Custard is never the main event. It is just the bit everyone actually wanted.