The £20 was so crisp it ‘looked like Madge from Benidorm’ (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)

A mum discovered she had accidentally slow-cooked a £20 note for two weeks after stashing her cash inside it.

Stacey Goodwin, from Leicestershire, was given £350 in cash by family members to help pay for her mother-in-law’s funeral.

Worried about having so much in one go, she hid the envelope inside the slow-cooker.

But the 41-year-old failed to notice a stray twenty left behind before going to the funeral home to drop off the money.

The note stayed wedged in the appliance while the mum-of-five cooked a number of meals for her family, and only discovered it when she went to make a stew two weeks later.

It was so crispy the florist compared it to Benidorm character Madge.

Stacey said: ‘When you see Madge on the show you can see she’s been in the sun too much, her skin is orange and wrinkled, that’s what the note reminded me of.’

Stacey had been making large family meals using the slow cooker for two weeks before she discovered the note (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)

She then jokingly served the cooked money to her partner for his dinner.

‘I didn’t say anything to start with – I just took the note in a bowl in the living room to my partner and slapped a slice of bread and butter on the side. He was just laughing,’ Stacey said.

‘It was hilarious, who slow-cooks money and who doesn’t notice there’s £20 missing? It was a light-hearted moment in quite a dark time for us, it was quite funny.

‘At the time it gave us an uplift, my partner’s mum would have thought that was hilarious.’

Stacey said she had a good laugh about the situation with her partner (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)

Now, the mum wants to find out if the note is still legal tender.

Stacey said: ‘I’ve googled whether you can spend money if you’ve slow cooked-it. I’ve tried to word it in all different combinations, it didn’t say and I haven’t tried to spend it yet.

‘I wouldn’t have cooked a meal if I knew that £20 was in there, I would have gone straight for a takeaway.

‘I said to the kids, “If you had washed up, you could have found £20.”‘

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The £20 was so crisp it ‘looked like Madge from Benidorm’.