Dawn is breaking, a feathery mist is kissing the valley below, the smell of coffee is wafting through the morning dew and someone has handed you a hot, crumbly morsel melting with butter and jam... perfect.

You'll need a stick, approximately 1cm thick and between 50cm and 1m long. Try substituting some of the flour for rolled porridge oats and adding some mixed spice.

85g butter

55g soft brown sugar

300g plain flour

2 eggs

Beat together the butter and sugar, add the flour and eggs and mix well to make the biscuit dough. Wrap the end of your stick with foil. Make a ball of dough roughly the size of a small tangerine and push this on to the end of the stick — not all the way through but enough for it to be secure. Hold the stick over the hot coals of your fire until the biscuit is a golden brown.

Pull the biscuit off the stick and fill the hole with rich organic butter and home-made jam.

Recipe extracted from The Happy Campers by Tess Carr and Kat Heyes, published by Bloomsbury, and available from BooksFirst priced £13.49 (RRP £14.99), free p&p on 0870 1608080; timesonline.co.uk/booksfirstbuy

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