Beech's Original Dark Chocolate Marzipan - 150g

Chocolate-covered marzipan belongs to the old school of British sweets, the kind you found in a proper sweet shop or a department store food hall, sitting next to the peppermint creams and the fondants. It is grown-up confectionery that never bothered trying to be trendy, and it never needed to.

People in Canada go looking for it because they remember a specific taste, and a specific name on the box. Beech's is that name for plenty of people from the north of England, and once you have it in your head, nothing else quite scratches the itch.

This one is 150g of dark chocolate marzipan. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from the radiator and the sunny windowsill, and it will sit happily in the cupboard until somebody finds it. It goes well with coffee after dinner, or with a cup of tea when the house has gone quiet.

Beech's are known for the rest of that old-fashioned line-up too: dark chocolate creams, peppermint creams and the like. If marzipan is your thing, a box of creams beside it makes a very respectable spread for visitors you actually like.