I once got startled in a mountain hut by a man who made a BBQ type sauce with a tin of cola and an oxo cube…true story.

Cola Chicken

Take 4 Chicken legs, coated in seasoned flour* and fry skin side down until brown, turn, chuck in a chopped onion and a couple of crushed garlic cloves and fry til the onion goes clear. Crumble in a beef stock cube and pour over a 330 ml tin of (full fat) cola, and a tin of sweetcorn. Add vinegar/worcestershire sauce*/tabasco* as preferred or available. simmer for 20 minutes, basting all the while, during which time the cola reduces to a sticky gloop, serve with instant mash^, and (given we were up a scottish hill) a ****load of Laphroaig^.

*Denotes subsequent refinements to the recipe that took place in domestic kitchens

^Denotes mountain hut specific accompaniments. Mind you, Laphroaig is the dog’s bollocks.