ALE & CHOCOLATE

Ale truffles (makes 16)

* 75ml ale

* 20g light muscavado sugar

* 120g dark chocolate

* 120g milk chocolate

* Cocoa powder

Warm the ale & sugar together in a saucepan then stir in the chocolate until melted

Cool in the fridge then roll into balls & roll in cocoa powder

When I was in my early teens I used to sink luxuriously into a romantic novel as though into a hot bath.
Diana Athill; Somewhere towards the end