Jamie Oliver make magnificent marshmallows on Jamie’s Comfort Foods.

Jamie says: “Making and serving marshmallows is just one of those magnificently therapeutic, fun things to do. It’s kind of weird, but feels like magic. You can cut and shape them however you please, and flavour them in really fun ways, toast them over fires, melt them over cheesecake, have them sandwiched between chocolate-drizzled cookies or even melted over ice cream.”

The ingredients are: 50 g cornflour, 50 g icing sugar, 50 g liquid glucose syrup, (get it from the supermarket or a chemist), 450 g caster sugar, 10 sheets of gelatine, 2 large free-range egg whites, 2 vanilla pods, 1½ teaspoons natural food colouring, optional.

The full recipe is available in Jamie’s Comfort Food book available at Amazon.