WHEN is a croissant not a croissant? When it has no butter perhaps? When it has nothing like the short list of ingredients in the traditional croissant — flour, yeast, water, butter, a little sugar and salt, and instead a long list of cheaper non-hydrogenated fats and oils, emulsifiers and acidifiers, dough enhancers and antioxidants.

WINTER may have landed on us straight from summer, but the arrival of bracks in the shops brings a lovely autumnal glow.

EVEN in the garden, organising a picnic can be lots of fun. In anticipation, keep children occupied by making the delicious raspberry buns below, and get them involved in packing up the coolbox or picnic basket.