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Thread: Biscuit nostalgia
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Graven Image
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Not one special cookie, but I do remember a store that kept their cookies in bins and sold them by the pound, which you could mix and match all of the different kinds. Windmill spice were a family favorite, so there were always more of those in our bag.
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Kelly Alves
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Pier One imports has a grocery section!
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bib
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My favourite biscuits are Anzacs which are well known to Aussies and Kiwis. However, the store bought ones are always disappointing whereas homemade are yummy. Anzacs date back to the first world war when women made them at home to send to the soldiers away at the war. The main ingredients are oatmeal, butter, coconut, sugar and golden syrup. You can make them soft or very crispy depending on personal preference. They keep well in a tin as long as the family doesn't open the tin and eat them in one go which is a common occurence in my house.
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Galloping Granny
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A favourite New Zealand biscuit disappeared some years ago – I don't know how long ago as it wasn't one I used to buy. But public demand brought it back about a year go: Chocoade, with a biscuit base, lemony filling and a thin very hard topping of dark chocolate. It sells like mad and of course they've followed it with half a dozen variations: double chocolate, strawberry etc. I like them.
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Mili
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Homemade Anzac biscuits are also great because no too bakers' biscuits are alike. My Mum's are quite compact and solid but her best friends' Anzac biscuits spread so they are flat and chewy. We made them at school from the school recipe book, but I think there was something wrong with the measurements as it ended up like an Anzac slice.
My local supermarket has recently added a British section. The other week I found Jammy Dodgers, which I used to eat when I lived for a few months in London. Unfortunately I now remember that I only ate them because there weren't any other sorts of jam biscuits, and Australian jam biscuits are actually much nicer (for my taste buds).
However tonight I checked again and my long time dream has come true - they were selling Jaffa Cakes! They used to make them in Australia but discontinued them years ago. In London I ate them all the time, but here I could only find German and Serbian brands that are not as nice. The ones I got tonight are Jacobs brand rather than my favourite McVities, but they're really good ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Penny S
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Jacobs and McVities are both part of United Biscuits, so they are probably the same.
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Mili
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That it explains it then.
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Penny S
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There's a piece in today's Guardian. UB has now been bought by a Turkish Company, Yildiz.
My family have had some odd connections with the company. I bought my last home from a couple called Crawford, a biscuit related name, though not shown as a UB company. They did have some connection though, as they kept getting letters from the company which I dutifully sent on, and which became increasingly formal looking. Eventually I gave up and breached what I had been taught about privacy and gave the new address. The compounding event was a huge UB lorry turning up one morning with a delivery of a gross of large boxes of snacks - crisps (US chips) and similar. I explained that they had moved some time previously, the driver agreed that he had not been able to see where I was going to keep the boxes, and went away.
My sister moved into a house which had been occupied by some young scions of one of the owning families. It took a huge number of coats of one coat covering paint to obliterate the wallpaintings they had applied throughout the house for a Halloween party. One hopes that it was a Halloween party. I gathered that there were also some other things which arose on the lines of unfinished business, but don't know the details.
I was quite glad to find no connection with my current home.
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by bib:
The main ingredients are oatmeal, butter, coconut, sugar and golden syrup.
You just gave some ammunition to a few of my friends! They were in Australia a few years ago, and loved eating Anzacs. Two friends were amazed that friend number three loved them, since he hates coconut. He has insisted that there is no coconut in Anzacs!
I can't wait to pass on your information!
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bib
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Wow, an Anzac biscuit fight! You can make them without coconut if you wish, but most of us prefer the addition of coconut. I had thought of putting the recipe here, but it is easily found by googling.Enjoy! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Twilight
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I quit a twenty year cigarette habit while living in England. I promptly replaced two packs of smokes a day with two packets a day of Bourbon Creams or Hob Nobs. It wasn't all biscuits though. There were also Dime Bars, many, many Dime Bars.
My homemade cookies are also pretty good, thanks to my mother's recipes. Oatmeal cookies made with molasses for extra chewiness. Peanut butter cookies made with brown sugar, lots of butter and a Hershey kiss melting in the middle.
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Penny S
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My school's oat cookies. You will see why I haven't made them yet.
Equal quantities plain flour, rolled oats, caster sugar and margarine.
A quarter of whatever that quantity is of golden syrup.
One sixteenth of that quantity of baking powder.
A pinch of bicarbonate of soda to 4 oz. (Of mixture? Of flour?)
A smidgen of egg if liked - at the ratio of one egg to 200 biscuits.
Cream the fat and sugar, add the sieved dry ingredients (obviously the oats aren't sieved) and mix with the syrup. Put little balls of mixture well spaced on the tray and bake in a moderate oven for 10 minutes.
They are lovely biscuits, but I haven't made any!
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Ariel
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Bit short in the egg department, but otherwise I see no problem with the recipe. I tend to assume most quantities when given as specific amounts are really only approximate anyway.
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Huntress
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I recently bought a packet of Café Noir due to nostalgia. They're not the cheapest and being half coated in (delicious, delicious) coffee icing, quite sugary so I ration them.
Whenever I see Tuc savoury biscuits I'm transported back to my great-auntie's cottage in rural Lancashire in the 1980s, with the open fire, rag rug and border collie. My great auntie would serve a plate of Tuc biscuits spread with margarine. They were quite salty, but so tasty!
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Penny S
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Bit short in the egg department, but otherwise I see no problem with the recipe. I tend to assume most quantities when given as specific amounts are really only approximate anyway.
It was a recipe for feeding loads of children, hence the making the egg go a very long way. I'm a bit worried about the pinch bicarb per 4 oz bit, though. They look a bit like coconut free Anzacs. don't they?
[ 06. November 2014, 15:40: Message edited by: Penny S ]
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The5thMary
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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.
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My mother NEVER bought cookies. It was an insult to her. She baked marvelous treats all year 'round but the next door neighbors had Nabisco "Chips A'hoy" chocolate chip cookies and I tried them once...ohhh, man! I was always begging my mother to buy some and she wouldn't. I bet she thought I was an ungrateful little snot...and I was! but those Chips A'hoy cookies had something...I don't know what...anyway, I would gladly go back in a time machine and never mention any damn store bought cookies if I could just have my mother back...
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Moo
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For some reason, I have been thinking of the Pfeffernüsse that are common in Germany around Christmas time. They are very hard, and some Germans call them Pflastersteine--paving stones.
After I came back to America, I decided to bake some, and I found out why they are so hard. You mix up the dough, roll it out, cut out the cookies and put them on the baking sheet, then you let them sit unbaked overnight and bake them in the morning. I would like to have some, but I don't want them badly enough to go to the work of making them.
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