Mrs Darlington's Boozy Blood Orange Marmalade - 340g

Marmalade sits right at the heart of the British breakfast, somewhere between the toast rack and the bear in the duffel coat. Every family has a view on it, and most of those views are strongly held.

People in Canada come looking for this one because a jar from home is a small, specific thing you cannot stop thinking about once you have remembered it. Blood orange with a bit of a kick is not something you forget in a hurry, and a Sunday breakfast without it feels like a draft of the real thing.

It comes in a proper 340g jar that sits happily in the cupboard until you open it, then moves to the fridge like everything else with a lid. Toast is the obvious job. A spoonful brushed over a ham, or stirred into the top of a sponge, is the less obvious one, and it tends to get asked about.

Mrs Darlington's is a family business from Cheshire, better known at home for lemon curd, jams and chutneys. If this jar goes down well, the rest of the shelf is worth a look too.