I wonder what percentage of people who read last week's guardian weekend magazine actually got around to making Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's marshamallow recipe.

We did! I was curious to see how easy it would be to do this as an E-number free alternative to buying a packet from Sainsbury's (which we did anyway in case ours failed). We couldn't find powdered gelatine anywhere so decided to give it a go with leaves - and realised there was a reason for specifying powdered. They were more jelly-like than any marshmallows I'd eaten but it really just meant that they melted quicker into a slurpy sticky mess when we cooked them (over candles). No bad thing. A successful bonfire night experiment. The fireworks were good too.