The Lake District has given us many great things: some of the most beautiful scenery in the British Isles, William Wordsworth, Postman Pat, Grasmere Gingerbread and the glory that is sticky toffee pudding.
My STP is altogether deeper and darker than the original version: it is still sweet, but the muscovado sugar and black treacle give it an almost savage intensity. It seems redolent of ginger, cloves, allspice – and yet none of these spices are used. It’s a miracle. I don’t understand it – but then, miracles are not to be questioned.
