Fresh out the oven

Chocolate muffins straight out of the oven, the charred topping of a crème brûlée, orange candied jelly fruits and ginger biscuits. On the palate, toasted crumpets with raspberry preserve, flapjacks with red berries, warm cinnamon swirls, caramelised honey almonds and, in the finish, chilli flakes on a chicken breast with sweet barbecue sauce. With the addition of water we opened the oven again, this time taking out a sourdough loaf with a lightly burnt crust next to a Chinese five spice and blackberry-glazed ham. To taste, we found ginger coffee cake with a brown sugar crumble topping. Following nine years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this whisky into a first fill shaved, toasted and re-charred oloroso-seasoned barrique.