In my youth, Ivor Cutler was one of the stars of the BBC Home Service.
One Monday night in 1961, his theme was the difficulty of buying a strategy suit with a jelly pocket.
From the moment that I heard that programme, I longed to try on a strategy suit.
It seemed too much to hope that I would ever have one myself, but my talented grandmother surprised me the following Christmas with a strategy suit of my very own, with a genuine jelly pocket.
I’ve always kept it for best, so I was cautious about testing a real jelly in the pocket.
However, in the first lockdown, I thought if not now, then when?
So I made a delicious pink jelly (actually more of a blancmange, since I wasn’t going out shopping at the time, and ingredients were limited) and found that the jelly pocket was indeed perfect for jelly.
