How to turn the dregs of a tin of golden syrup into a delectable toffee sauce – recipe

Tom Hunt’s cinnamon baked apples with golden syrup toffee sauce. Photograph: Tom Hunt/The Guardian.

Lyle’s golden syrup comes in the most ornate and nostalgic of tins, but the syrup inside often proves almost impossible to extract entirely. Turn what might otherwise be wasted into this luxurious toffee sauce to savour on Bonfire Night, especially when drizzled generously over cinnamon baked apples with scoops of vanilla ice-cream.

Toffee sauce with baked apples