Cheese and Oregano Rusks

Rusks are one of the first foods that we give to weaning children; sturdy enough to be gripped in tiny grasping fists, but soft enough to suckle into a comforting nothingness. My taste for them as an adult never quite went away, and in times of despair, sadness or simply trawling the supermarket aisles looking for something simple to nibble on, I slip a box of Farley’s rusks into my shopping basket, furtively burying them under the more respectable grown-up foods like bananas and vegetables