Still in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and fast running out of funds, let alone inspiration, with which to provide two square meals a day to six fully grown homeworkers, I thought I would see if I could make my own baked beans. Only criteria being that they must taste as least as good…

Even at the very start of the Covid-19 lockdown, some hazily distant thirty days ago, all the flour and yeast had vanished from the supermarket shelves. Along with loo rolls, pasta and tinned tomatoes. Now those last three store-cupboard staples are starting to make fleeting guest appearances in our shops, and can be snapped up…