are not just any old hot cakes. Just as Pancakes with maple syrup and summer berries, popovers, Chocolate and Ginger Muffins and French Toast aren't your everyday breakfast.

Oh no. They are all Divorce Court Recipes. That is, if you are mad enough to read them out aloud from a cookery book at breakfast time when your husband has a hangover.

Honestly, you would think a French, heavenly hot with generously spiced muffins wearing berets smothered in maple syrup who'd popped over for a puffy pancake would go down well with any man, wouldn't you?

Just call him Mr Picky.