Martin Fone takes a look at one of the all-time great toast toppers: Gentleman’s Relish.
Sometimes simplicity is best.
Take hot, buttered toast. The joy that it can bring was wonderfully encapsulated in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1908), where a plate ‘piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb’ sent Toad into ecstasy,…
