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Ariel
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I happened to be in a well-known supermarket recently idly passing through the biscuit aisle, when glancing at the shelves I was suddenly struck by biscuit nostalgia and my basket acquired one or two unnecessary items which were old favourites years ago.
Of course time moves on and it isn't always possible to get some things now, but I remember with special pleasure:
Boland's lemon puffs, Jacob's Mikados (these are marshmallow, jam and coconut), fig rolls, Cafe Noir, and Garibaldi biscuits. And little packets of Iced Gems.
Any favourite biscuits that strike a chord with you from long ago?
(Biscuits probably translates as cookies, but I'm not sure they are quite the same.)
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I almost passed a tear at the passing of Abbey Crunch. Times change, and so do bicuits.
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There was deli in Dulwich (not the really Dulwichy part, but in the midst of council estates) which stocked some foreign biscuits called Cafe Choc. Think a hybrid of Cafe Noir and Choco Leibnitz. Coffee icing, thinner than McVitie's, one side, dark chocolate, also thin, on the other. Possibly made by Delacre in Belgium. I bought them every time I was in the neighbourhood, until they vanished, never to be seen again. The deli is now a Tesco. The biscuits are not even to be seen on the internet.
And at the opposite end of the spectrum, Fox's used to make a biscuit called Thick Rich Tea, which was brilliant for dunking but looked like a dog biscuit. First available to me in a shop that sold things in big tubs that one served oneself from. Then only findable by me in Cavendish House in Cheltenham. Then gone.
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balaam
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My mother used to work at Fox's. So there were plenty of freshly made broken biscuits in our house, but I never knew what they were called, as they were not packaged, just mixed in a plastic bag.
So I do remember the thick rich tea, though to me they were less like a dog biscuit and more rusk like. Though I would always use either a chocolate or ginger biscuit for dunking, back in the day. I haven't dunked in years.
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I remember when chocolate digestives came individually wrapped in silver paper - red for plain, blue for milk. They were a special treat, but I also liked ordinary digestives, and malted milk.
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One of the favorites of the professor and his wife who had afternoon tea (to which students often came) when I first started college, at New College in Sarasota (1985), was a sort of raisin cookie that isn't made anymore. They were very flat. (The cookies, not the prof and wife.)
Dr. Clough, Mrs. Clough, their big barky dog Tyree, and those cookies--all gone now, God bless them. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Store-bought cookies were almost unheard of in my home when I was a child. My mother and grandmother baked just about every day, so there were always yummy homemade cookies on hand. I do miss those, especially at Christmas.
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Hilda of Whitby
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Originally posted by ChastMastr:
One of the favorites of the professor and his wife who had afternoon tea (to which students often came) when I first started college, at New College in Sarasota (1985), was a sort of raisin cookie that isn't made anymore. They were very flat. (The cookies, not the prof and wife.)
Dr. Clough, Mrs. Clough, their big barky dog Tyree, and those cookies--all gone now, God bless them.
Might these be what you had in mind?
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Hilda of Whitby
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Dutch windmill cookies.
Pfeffernusse cookies. Also Lebkuchen.
These soft wonderful molasses cookies with white icing.
Snickerdoodles.
I don't eat things like these anymore, but they are a wonderful memory in my mind's tongue!
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RuthW
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Store-bought cookies were almost unheard of in my home when I was a child. My mother and grandmother baked just about every day, so there were always yummy homemade cookies on hand. I do miss those, especially at Christmas.
My mother nearly always had home-made cookies on hand when we were growing up, and she still makes cookies when the family converges at her home. I visited her recently, and she is already planning the Christmas cookies. I will never stop thinking that homemade chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter cookies, which were our everyday cookies when I was a kid, surpass anything sold in stores.
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Lemon Snaps. Thin, light, crisp, very lemon-y. Don't know the brand, but haven't seen them in ages.
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Ginger Nut biscuits are probably the best for dunking. Has anyone seen Ginger Thins recently?
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A cookie company called "Mother's" " used to make these lovely iced raisin shortbread cookies. They recently discontinued them locally. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
But their iced animal crackers live on!
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Garibaldis are a real favourite, but not available over here
There are lots of peculiarly Indian biscuits about and the bakery down the road makes some amazing things they call cookies, but really they are an artisanal biscuit - and lovely!
Today I am writing to a UK friend who flies out in just over a week asking if she can get me some Cornish Wafers - my favourite biscuit for cheese.
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Huia
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Originally posted by Hilda of Whitby:
Dutch windmill cookies.
Yes! I must see if I can find some. I remember the ones here were quite spicy.
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As well as nostalgia (Gypsy Creams, Penguins), I suffer from cross-Pond deprivation, so I miss things like custard creams (Oreo cookies and Girl Guide cookies just Aren't The Same).
My dad used to have a weakness for wrapped chocolate biscuits of the Club Wafer/Caramel Wafer ilk, and there was a particular brand which I'm racking my brains to remember the name of - the biscuits were long, narrow, chocolate-coated wafer sandwiches with a lovely rich chocolate ganache in the middle. Wrapped in blue-and-gold foil IIRC.
Savoury biscuits I miss: Bath Olivers (which I can't get here) and Proper Digestives (which I can but they're rather expensive).
Oooh, I've just remembered I've got a packet of Stockan's oatcakes that I brought back from home in the larder ... ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Hilda of Whitby: Dutch windmill cookies.
They are linked to the Sinterklaas feast of December 5th, so their season is starting again.
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Kelly Alves
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OM NOM NOM ,
Chast, I think Keebler makes a version of those. We used to have them a lot when I was a kid, too, and I think they are still out there.
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by Ariel:
(Biscuits probably translates as cookies, but I'm not sure they are quite the same.)
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A British biscuit is an American cookie and an American cookie is a British cookie and an American biscuit is a British scone and an American scone is something else entirely
From the Oxford Dictionaries blog.
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Originally posted by balaam:
My mother used to work at Fox's. So there were plen Though I would always use either a chocolate or ginger biscuit for dunking, back in the day. I haven't dunked in years.
Oh, ginger biscuits with a drinking chocolate. Heaven!
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Middle school/junior high was a pretty difficult time in my life as it was for many. But one one thing that made up for the psychic pain of that passage was the quality of cookies baked in the school cafeteria. They made big, scrumptious chocolate chip, peanut butter, oatmeal raisin, and sugar cookies, a different kind every day. But very much my favorites were the chewy molasses ginger cookies. Oh. My. God. I never tasted their like again.
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When my American sister and her family stay with me, here in Oz, they frequently cook. We fight over the biscuits. They want them out of the oven, soft... So soft that they seem raw and crumbly! But I am an Australian. My biscuits are crisp.
We find ourselves in front of tne oven, putting back and pulling out various trays of biscuits.
Plus, of course, they call the finished product COOKIES!
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Originally posted by Piglet:
I've just remembered I've got a packet of Stockan's oatcakes that I brought back from home in the larder ...
However did you get the larder onto the plane? ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
My wife (Scottish but not Orcadian) loves the Stockan's ... much better than Nairn's. But these are even better!
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
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Originally posted by balaam:
My mother used to work at Fox's. So there were plen Though I would always use either a chocolate or ginger biscuit for dunking, back in the day. I haven't dunked in years.
Oh, ginger biscuits with a drinking chocolate. Heaven!
Another vote here for ginger biscuits being the best ever for dunking - just the right consistency and minimal danger of a drop-off.
I also very much enjoy a Bourbon, two biscuits for the price of one and chocolate cream in between; but I only eat custard creams, their vanilla-flavoured counterpart, when there's nothing else available.
Garibaldi and fig rolls are excellent: the fruit content makes them worth at least one of the five-a-day.
And to pay homage to the biscuit that prompted this thread - I love digestives and can consume a large number at a sitting.
Nen - who currently has only shortbreads in the biscuit tin. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Garibaldis were known in our family as ' squashed flies'. I have a recipe, if anyone wants it.
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Moo
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My grandmother, who lived with us, used to bake the most wonderful oatmeal cookies. When I came home from school, there would be a plate of warm oatmeal cookies on the sideboard.
Most American oatmeal cookies are made with brown sugar, but these were made with white sugar and cinnamon.
I found the recipe a few years ago and made some to take to a family reunion.
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The ones I remember are the Nameless Biscuits - well, they probably did have a name, with 'chocolate' and 'assorted' in it somewhere. But you bought them loose. They were various shapes and textures, and chocolate coated on one side. My favourites were round, with a hole, and had coconut in.
Individually wrapped biscuits - Teacakes and Penguins and Wagon Wheels - were great favourites. All of which you can still get of course, except they are tiny, miniaturised versions of the ones in My Day.
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Penny S
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I think I have, somewhere, the recipe the school used for a golden syrup-involved-somewhere cookie. Must look it out. I don't think I have ever made it as the recipe made enough for a horde with one egg. And it won't be around any more since the outsourcing. I know it isn't with the gypsy tart, but might be with the butterscotch tart recipe. Wherever that is.
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L'organist
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We had a Home & Colonial (later International) store and they delivered the order every week. 'Packet' biscuits were a luxury - generally one ordered by the ounce from the selection kept in tins with clear lids along the front of the counter. They had wonderful cookies and things called Harvest Biscuits which had a relief picture of a farmer standing by a stook of wheat, resting on his scythe and with horse and cart in the background. The nearest modern equivalent if Malted Milk biscuits but they're nowhere near as tasty.
For Santa Lucia (13th December) we used to make traditional Swedish Pepparkakor which are delicious. I make them now for Christmas, decorate with white icing and then thread with red ribbon for the tree.
ChastMastr I think the fruited biscuit you remember was a Fruit Shortcake - they're still made in the UK by McVities.
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Ariel
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I'm wondering if we ought to have a one-off Ship's Biscuit Exchange thread in All Saints whereby people in different countries could sign up to post each other packets of their favourite biscuits that they can't get locally. Postal regulations permitting, of course.
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lilBuddha
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It would be a nice social exercise, but one can get almost anything from almost everywhere. There is this little known secret enterprise which facilitates the exchange. Called the "Internet" IIRC.
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Sioni Sais
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One of the joys of biscuits (and cookies) is that they can be made at home. The home-made biscuit at this home is the Grantham Gingerbread, with is lighter, in colour and texture, than the usual gingerbread.
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jedijudy
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The cookie gene is strong in my family.
We couldn't really afford store-bought cookies when I was young, but my mom made an amazing variety of home made ones. Daughter-Unit is famous for her cookies, too.
One of the family favorites was a raisin filled cookie. It had two slightly sweet soft cookies on the outside and a spiced raisin filling. My dad complained because the four-inch diameter treats were too small. Mom got him really good. She put a special offering in Dad's lunchbox, which he didn't see until he pulled it out in front of his co-workers...a raisin filled cookie almost twelve inches in diameter.
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ChastMastr
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Originally posted by L'organist:
ChastMastr I think the fruited biscuit you remember was a Fruit Shortcake - they're still made in the UK by McVities.
It is something like that, yes--it was made by Sunshine along with some things which are also sadly gone (Hydrox, which were like Oreos but different and I miss them) after they were bought out by Keebler.
Here is a pic of them.
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
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Originally posted by Ariel:
(Biscuits probably translates as cookies, but I'm not sure they are quite the same.)
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A British biscuit is an American cookie and an American cookie is a British cookie and an American biscuit is a British scone and an American scone is something else entirely
From the Oxford Dictionaries blog.
Yes. And while I was aware of the cross-pond language barrier, and am a huge fan of our (American) cookies, when I saw this thread all I could think of was the biscuits my grandma and mom used to bake. Savory, not sweet (until we added honey butter of course)-- soft, flaky, buttery, warm from the oven. Now that they've both passed away, I've never found anything to compare-- such a sweet, nostalgic memory.
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
... My dad complained because the four-inch diameter treats were too small ...
Too small??? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
There's a lady in our congregation who bakes raisin squares which sound similar to those, but these are only about an inch-and-a-half square. The outsides are a sort of slightly soft pastry, with a raisin filling not unlike mincemeat; they're the sort of thing I shouldn't really like, but I do.
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I remember the Nabisco and Keebler Raisin biscuits. I'm a bigger fan of Fig Newton cookies which were invented in Cambridge. I had a friend who lived in a condo that was converted from the factory.
Nabisco stands for National Biscuit Company. They were a national conglomeration of major bakeries in a number of cities and a number of them contributed popular cookies (or recipes) to the other branches. In addition to the Boston fig Newtons, Manhattan contributed the Oreo ( a copy of the Hydrox chocolate sandwich cookie), Animal crackers and Lorna Doone shortbread cookies.
I still see the Danish butter cookies which come in a blue tin which are sweet and very buttery. They can be found cheaply in some import stores. I had a theory that they were invented to export the European butter surplus mountain by cutting it into round shapes and dusting lightly with flour and sugar.
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Originally posted by Palimpsest:
I'm a bigger fan of Fig Newton cookies which were invented in Cambridge.
I don't like Fig Newtons, but when I was living in Belfast I bought a similar cookie with a date filling. I like dates much better than figs.
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Originally posted by Piglet:
.......My dad used to have a weakness for wrapped chocolate biscuits of the Club Wafer/Caramel Wafer ilk, and there was a particular brand which I'm racking my brains to remember the name of - the biscuits were long, narrow, chocolate-coated wafer sandwiches with a lovely rich chocolate ganache in the middle. Wrapped in blue-and-gold foil IIRC........
Blue Riband?
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jedijudy: She put a special offering in Dad's lunchbox, which he didn't see until he pulled it out in front of his co-workers...a raisin filled cookie almost twelve inches in diameter.
That's some lunchbox
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Originally posted by Moo:
I don't like Fig Newtons, but when I was living in Belfast I bought a similar cookie with a date filling. I like dates much better than figs.
If you have the chance to get Middle Eastern pastries locally, look for ma'amoul. I think you'd like them. I know I do.
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posted by Piglet quote:
My dad used to have a weakness for wrapped chocolate biscuits of the Club Wafer/Caramel Wafer ilk, and there was a particular brand which I'm racking my brains to remember the name of - the biscuits were long, narrow, chocolate-coated wafer sandwiches with a lovely rich chocolate ganache in the middle. Wrapped in blue-and-gold foil IIRC.......
Tunnock's Caramel Wafers?
Red and gold wrapped are milk chocolate, Blue and gold are plain.
(Tunnock make the famous Tea Cake and Snowballs)
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Tunnocks also do a Wafer Cream, which might more fit the description of ganache (though I can't speak for it), but it's not blue.
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I'd forgotten lemon puffs - a sort of puff pastry sandwiched with lemon cream filling. Fig roklls are still around, as are "squashed fly" biscuits - Garibaldis. The one I remember though was an oval biscuit filled with "honey and cream" - a sort of honey flavoured sticky jam and a vanilla cream. They had an oval aperture on one side so that you could see the honey jam.
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I loved Fox's Echo biscuits, though they were rather more chocolate than biscuit.
Are chocolate-covered malted milk biscuits still about? The absolute perfect accompaniment to a cup of tea with milk and no sugar.
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Originally posted by Athrawes:
Garibaldis were known in our family as ' squashed flies'. I have a recipe, if anyone wants it.
Fly's graveyards in ours..
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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jedijudy: She put a special offering in Dad's lunchbox, which he didn't see until he pulled it out in front of his co-workers...a raisin filled cookie almost twelve inches in diameter.
That's some lunchbox
He was a carpenter, with the appetite to match, so a very large lunch box! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
... My dad complained because the four-inch diameter treats were too small ...
Too small???
There's a lady in our congregation who bakes raisin squares which sound similar to those, but these are only about an inch-and-a-half square. The outsides are a sort of slightly soft pastry, with a raisin filling not unlike mincemeat; they're the sort of thing I shouldn't really like, but I do.
Well, I often wondered if it would have been easier to put a dozen of the small cookies in his lunch rather than the feat it must have been to bake that larger sized cookie! We children thought the smaller cookies were just fine, they were big enough that we used two hands to eat them!
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