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It's about time we discussed the key issue of our time, what is the best "digestive biscuit" on the market. (Graham's Crackers for our US-ian cousins...) Digestives are the classic snack with tea or coffee and
McVities The original but are they still the best? I went through a phase of finding them slightly greasy, but the crumb size is good, the frangibility is accceptable and the price is right. The greasiness seems to have gone away. Perhaps the recipe changed?
McVities Light No. Just no.
Tesco's Own Brand I find them greasy in a very bad way, like hydrogenated palm oil or something. Very cheap but not worth the drop in quality.
Simmer's Abernethy Biscuits These are rather pricey but they have a very pleasing snap, fine light crumb and sweet flavour. I wouldn't eat them all the time, because variety is the spice of life. Even so, a great example of Scottish biscuit skills.
M&S Digestives Lighter and finer crumbed than McVities, these would be my Digestive of choice if there was an M&S close by. Most of the time they are on price promotion too.
Sainsbury's Own Brand To me these are too dry, not sweet enough, and don't have the right snap.
What's your favourite? Are there some regional specialities I ought to get hold of? How do Digestives compare with shortbread, Rich Tea and other similar plain biscuits?
Kilkrazy wrote: . (Graham's Crackers for our US-ian cousins...)
..Well I never knew that.
This whole thread is, of course, a fallacy.
Obviously.
Any fule kno' that the only real biscuit worth owning, let alone eating, is the majestic Custard Cream.
Tesco's Own Brand
I find them greasy in a very bad way, like hydrogenated palm oil or something. Very cheap but not worth the drop in quality.
Store own brand biscuits are always disappointing , possibly due to thermodynamics.
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ingtaer wrote: Civilisation has no place in biscuits (unless you leave them long enough) and every one knows the only true vessel for cheese is the Hovis biscuit.
I'll allow that the Hovis has a small role as a platform for cheese. It is essentially a digestive though.
For cheese one leans -- as a gentleman should -- towards Jacob's Cream Cracker.
When they go then you're forced to eat the water biscuits and then just wait for the 'orrible ones with all the bits in to go off and stale -- wouldn't be Xmas otherwise would it really ?
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Mr. Burning wrote: Orange choc, caramel choc are beast mode digestives. I'm afraid that 1 pack very often equals a serving size.
Haven't tried the caramel ones recently (I'm not a fan of caramel, only really like salted caramel), but I'm right behind you on how quickly the packs go once you've bought them!
Not sure if McVities sell them here, but when I was in Qatar they sold a wheat/oat version Whole Wheat, G.A of the Digestive; sounds like a bad deal, but they're more flavoursome and far more robust, so you can dip them in your tea and not be worried about them breaking. Plus, no grease, and healthy!(?)
EDIT: These are the ones!
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Marshmallow
•1½ Tbsp gelatine powder
•¾ cup water
•¾ cup sugar
•1 egg white
•¾ cup icing sugar
•1 tsp vanilla essence
Instructions
1.Lay out 15 digestive biscuits. Set another 15 biscuits aside (for tops).
2.Melt the chocolate over a double boiler and spoon about ½ tsp onto each biscuit.
3.Leave the chocolate to cool slightly on the biscuit, about 20 minutes. You can now sandwich two biscuits together.
Marshmallow
1.Put the gelatine and the water into a pot and leave to soften for 5 minutes. Add the sugar and bring the mixture to the boil. Continue to simmer/boil for 8 minutes. Leave to cool down for 20 minutes.
2.Whisk the egg white until stiff. Beat in the icing sugar and slowly pour in the cooled gelatine mixture. Beat this for 6 minutes until it is glossy, white and very thick. See my photo in blog for visual image.
3.Pipe the marshmallow on as described in the blog post and cover with toasted coconut.
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Chocolate Caramel digestive. Without doubt the best digestive. Not for dunking though. The caramel gets in the way. For dunking you need a good bourbon.
I also like an M&S Viennese biscuit or a shortbread. Shop shortbread is ok. Home made is best. Someone I used to work with made a wonderful lavender shortbread.
As for rich team My wife likes them. Lord knows why, its like eating cardboard.
ingtaer wrote: Well to make sure this thread stays on topic, I present the sickeningly sweet marshmallow digestive, with recipe (and what a post for my 200th).
Marshmallow Digestive Biscuits
<snip>
That sounds like a lot of work for a smores.
Box of graham crackers
chocolate bar
bag of marshmallows
Fire
Stick.
Put chocolate on cracker, make sure you have a top/bottom half for sandwich (most most brands, that’s just breaking the rectangular cracker in half along the perforations)
Put marshmallow on stick
Roast over fire until done to personal preference (should be gooey throughout, golden brown exterior IMHO)
Use cracker halves to pull marshmallow off stick, to prevent burning your fingers with it’s lava-like qualities.
Eat.
Repeat.
ingtaer wrote: Well to make sure this thread stays on topic, I present the sickeningly sweet marshmallow digestive, with recipe (and what a post for my 200th).
Marshmallow Digestive Biscuits
<snip>
That sounds like a lot of work for a smores.
Box of graham crackers
chocolate bar
bag of marshmallows
Fire
Stick.
Put chocolate on cracker, make sure you have a top/bottom half for sandwich (most most brands, that’s just breaking the rectangular cracker in half along the perforations)
Put marshmallow on stick
Roast over fire until done to personal preference (should be gooey throughout, golden brown exterior IMHO)
Use cracker halves to pull marshmallow off stick, to prevent burning your fingers with it’s lava-like qualities.
Eat.
Repeat.
Marshmallow must , during said flame exposure, catch fire. Length of scorching accorded to one's own taste.
ingtaer wrote: Well to make sure this thread stays on topic, I present the sickeningly sweet marshmallow digestive, with recipe (and what a post for my 200th).
Marshmallow Digestive Biscuits
<snip>
That sounds like a lot of work for a smores.
Box of graham crackers
chocolate bar
bag of marshmallows
Fire
Stick.
Put chocolate on cracker, make sure you have a top/bottom half for sandwich (most most brands, that’s just breaking the rectangular cracker in half along the perforations)
Put marshmallow on stick
Roast over fire until done to personal preference (should be gooey throughout, golden brown exterior IMHO)
Use cracker halves to pull marshmallow off stick, to prevent burning your fingers with it’s lava-like qualities.
Eat.
Repeat.
Marshmallow must , during said flame exposure, catch fire. Length of scorching accorded to one's own taste.
I’m going to have to agree to disagree here. While I acknowledge the tiki-torch school of smores, I prefer a caramelized, rather then charred marshmallow.
Although if you don’t have to blow out your marshmallow at least once during the night, you probably aren’t trying hard enough.
ingtaer wrote: Well to make sure this thread stays on topic, I present the sickeningly sweet marshmallow digestive, with recipe (and what a post for my 200th).
Marshmallow Digestive Biscuits
<snip>
That sounds like a lot of work for a smores.
Box of graham crackers
chocolate bar
bag of marshmallows
Fire
Stick.
Put chocolate on cracker, make sure you have a top/bottom half for sandwich (most most brands, that’s just breaking the rectangular cracker in half along the perforations)
Put marshmallow on stick
Roast over fire until done to personal preference (should be gooey throughout, golden brown exterior IMHO)
Use cracker halves to pull marshmallow off stick, to prevent burning your fingers with it’s lava-like qualities.
Eat.
Repeat.
Marshmallow must , during said flame exposure, catch fire. Length of scorching accorded to one's own taste.
I’m going to have to agree to disagree here. While I acknowledge the tiki-torch school of smores, I prefer a caramelized, rather then charred marshmallow.
Although if you don’t have to blow out your marshmallow at least once during the night, you probably aren’t trying hard enough.
Heretic! The Black Ark has been dispatched... Now I'm hungry.
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Kilkrazy wrote: . (Graham's Crackers for our US-ian cousins...)
..Well I never knew that.
If my memory of useless trivialities is correct the name difference comes from when they were first made. They were said to aid digestion (even though they don't), hence the name digestives. The US said they could only be called that if it was proven they aided digestion and so they were called something else. Might be apocryphal but that's the story I'm sticking with.
And why can't American's say Graham? It's always "Gram's" crackers. Just like they can't say Craig, it's always "Creg".
Mumble, mumble, damn colonialists destroying the queens English, mumble, mumble.
reds8n wrote: one leans -- as a gentleman should -- towards Jacob's Cream Cracker.
Dear Lord no, the only purpose for the Jacob's cracker is to be used as a prop while discussing irrelevent squeaky voiced commedians.
If one must go for a branded cracker then may I suggest the Carr's melt.
ingtaer wrote: You are all in error, the only true biscuit is the Anzac.
Your inadequate colonist biscuit has no place in a civilised discussion.
The Digestive also masquerades as a biscuit for cheese.
It is at least quite more adequate than what those other former colonists call "biscuits", instead of admitting their error they simply gave real biscuits a crude name; such arrogance.
n0t_u wrote: It is at least quite more adequate than what those other former colonists call "biscuits", instead of admitting their error they simply gave real biscuits a crude name; such arrogance.
Now I want some light and fluffy buttermilk biscuits. Covered in gravy. Because I spent too long in the south and hate my cholesterol levels. But there are few things that sum up comfort food like a good plate of southern cooking.
of the Digestive; sounds like a bad deal, but they're more flavoursome and far more robust, so you can dip them in your tea and not be worried about them breaking. Plus, no grease, and healthy!(?)
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Length of scorching accorded to one's own taste. 
