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BISCUITS are bloody great!

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19:38 / 27.07.05

Just realised how great biscuits are? Me 'n' all!

What's your fav biscuit and why?

19:50 / 27.07.05

my gran makes the best biscuits.
this is FACT, and cannot be disputed by science or sorcery.
they are from an old family recipe, handed down through her generation for years, ever since she read it on the back of a pack of scotch porridge oats.
she and i and all the biscuit's many, many fans call them oaties, which is fittingly the best name for an oat-based biscuit ever.

if there was ever a better biscuit its maker has long since taken the recipe to his or her grave, making me wonder why you would even bring it up.

the oatie: king of biscuits, emperor of sugary treats.

19:56 / 27.07.05

We may need more convincing. I'm rather partial to Advent Biscuits myself. I love the shortbread crunch surrounded by the beautiful white hard icing, covered in festive pictures of traditional jollity, topped off with some silk ribbon to enable decoration on a splendid christmas tree.

Wonderfull.

19:59 / 27.07.05

The best commercially-available biscuit is the milk chocolate HobNob.

There is no argument on that score.

No. Stop it.

No.

Of course, this is sweet/dunkable biscuits, rather than savoury cheese-related ones, where there's more debate possible. I'm partial to a Bath Oliver myself.

20:03 / 27.07.05

I also like Garibaldi's not just because of the fascist connections, the chewy gooey nature that ensues after a good old tea dunk is devine.

The cheese biscuit situation has me a little stumped, maybe we could run 2 polls within this thread?

22:02 / 27.07.05

Can I be the first person to nominate Stoatie's dog (RIP) as the Best Dog Named Biscuits EVAR? Thank you.

Since I'm in a generous mood, I'm going to share a couple of my mum's yummy biscuit recipes. And now I'm craving some of those chocolate cookies...

22:14 / 27.07.05

Biscuit besting is highly subjective. My Mum made the best ginger biscuits and the best chocolate chip biscuits ever. Of course.

They were kept in a tin next to the 'Teasmaid/made' in my parents bedroom. My sister and I used to go to great lengths to steal them late at night; because the bedroom door was creaky we had to cover the noise, so she would flush the loo at which point I would open the door, run in and steal them and then return to our room to eat them under the covers.

Maybe it's eating them under the covers that made them so special. I might try that with Hob-nobs.

rising and revolving

23:19 / 27.07.05

Nah, best store bought biccie is the Tim-Tam, but it's only fer the Aussies.

Sorry, rest of the world. Please feel free to go about your hob-nobbing.

Tryphena Absent

23:33 / 27.07.05

Actually they sell Tim-Tam's in the Tesco in Kings Cross so hahaha but they're not proper biscuits, they're chocolate bars.

04:48 / 28.07.05

I wouldn't eat hobnobs in bed, little crumb explorers will end up charting crannies you didn't know existed.

uncle retrospective

07:50 / 28.07.05

"Actually they sell Tim-Tam's in the Tesco in Kings Cross. "

Must go to London.

Toffee pops are fantastic, as are Jaffa Cakes.

God, I'd kill everyone on this board for a Tim Tam right now.

07:56 / 28.07.05

Tim-Tams are the ones you can/should drink your tea through aren't they?

08:07 / 28.07.05

Tim Tams are available as massively inflated prices from Harvey Nicholls, should you be near one. A lot of very large Tescos hide them away on the top shelf, as well. The Corstorphine branch in Edinburgh used to do them. They rock, and yes, you are supposed to sook tea through them. Ick.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

09:45 / 28.07.05

Jammy Dodgers.

Shortbread, sticky jam in the middle.

ACE

09:49 / 28.07.05

I'm gonna vote for the humble Ginger Nut, perhaps the greatest dunker ever. I's the way they soften but remain slightly chewy, and tyhe way the sharpness of the tea melds with the sharpness of the ginger.

Yussss!

10:11 / 28.07.05

Carr's cheese melts. Any poppy and sesame crackers (yes, I'm a salt person). Home made flapjacks.

Romany creams - the posh, rich Bourbon.

The all-natural Pink Wafer.

10:13 / 28.07.05

I don't think crackers and cheesy doo-dahs count as biscuits.

10:15 / 28.07.05

Flapjacks aren't biscuits either.

They're flapjacks.

10:16 / 28.07.05

that's absolutely fact, they don't. i am currently enjoying three nice biscuits. how do i know they're nice? because it says so on them. i've always liked the way they do that, it's simple, honest, refreshing, and nice.

10:33 / 28.07.05

Listen to you're MUMMY Boboss

The cheese biscuit situation has me a little stumped, maybe we could run 2 polls within this thread?

Its MUMMYS thread and what MUMMY says goes...

Flapjacks are biscuits, just a kind of biscuit- My fave biscuit... hmmmm not really a biscuit person but the tubes of super thin choc biscuits from Harvey Nicks that cost an arm and a leg are worth every penny...christmas biccys mmmm.

On the savory thing i like a good oat cake or the humble ryveta- but what else can compare to a super salty Krackerwheat to help clog the arterys- Gumbitch once tried to deep fry them as I remember- tasty were they Mr G?

10:37 / 28.07.05

Well, I'm sorry but I won't listen to MUMMY. In my world, cheesy thingys will never be proper biscuits and neither will flapjacks.

I cannot be persuaded otherwise.

10:50 / 28.07.05

Crackers are not only different to biscuits, they are far superior. Salty, crispy perfection.

But on the topic of biscuits, my brother used to have a fondness for biscuits in milk. He would get a bowl and fill it with about 8 scotch finger biscuits, cover it with milk and eat it like cereal. Does anyone else do this?

10:54 / 28.07.05

8 scotch finger biscuits

Do you mean shortbread?

11:00 / 28.07.05

I'd always thought that the term 'scotch finger biscuit' was used to describe shortbread with insufficient buttery goodness.

11:15 / 28.07.05

I have eaten dark chocolate digestives with milk. Very good.
In fact dark chocolate digestives are running a close personal second.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

11:20 / 28.07.05

I quite like those vanilla sugared finger biscuits, can't remember what the hell they are called though.
Any ideas? You get them in rather large transparent packs. Very popular in Spain and France i believe.

11:50 / 28.07.05

Boboss, Plain chocolate digestives with milk rock. But you're wrong about the crackers, Biscuits for cheese, bitch! (Mark the Sparrow). Cheese and biscuits is Civilised.

11:55 / 28.07.05

Biscuits for cheese

Balls. I have my own PRIVATE language.

12:01 / 28.07.05

Savoiardi Harrison?

12:03 / 28.07.05

Didya never see 'I am not an animal'? Funny as all satans children.

Biscuits were originally savoury, from the French Bi-Scuit (twice baked) so the sweet biscuits that we all love are in fact PALE COPIES of the REAL biscuits. For cheese.

12:07 / 28.07.05

Ganesh - it's been many years since I've had these so they may be just an Australianised version of shortbread, but from memory they aren't as buttery, which would tally with Vincennes's suggestion.

From their website:

"Arnott's Scotch Finger is the most popular plain sweet biscuit in Australia. Australians enjoy around 180 million Scotch Fingers each year and this figure is continuing to grow.

Scotch Finger is also one of Arnott?s oldest biscuits. It was introduced in 1906, as 'Kiel Finger', the German word for a ships keel. This referred to Arnott's early business of providing long-life dry biscuits for ships sailing from Newcastle. The name was then changed prior to the outbreak of World War 1, with the rise of Australian patriotism.

The current biscuit has changed little from William Arnott's original recipe, which he bought with him from Scotland when he emigrated in 1847.

Scotch Finger has traditionally been considered the biscuit to have with a 'cuppa' and is ideal to break and dunk.

The biscuit has a lovely melt-in-the-mouth texture, which is the result of our bakers using a combination of butter, eggs, condensed milk and a special soft flour.

In 1993 Arnott's introduced Scotch Finger Chocolate a traditional Scotch Finger biscuit half-coated with milk chocolate - a real treat.

The latest edition to the Scotch Finger family is new Limited Edition Scotch Finger with Nuts - delicious hazelnut flavoured biscuits with a half coating of creamy milk chocolate and a sprinkling of crunchy peanuts."

12:18 / 28.07.05

Biscuits were originally savoury, from the French Bi-Scuit (twice baked) so the sweet biscuits that we all love are in fact PALE COPIES of the REAL biscuits. For cheese.

Rubbish, the word "biscuit" is actually a corruption of the English "best sweet". Sweet, like biscuits. Do you see?

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

12:24 / 28.07.05

Yes Loomis that's the buggers. Thanks for that. Capital.

12:38 / 28.07.05

Actually they sell Tim-Tam's in the Tesco in Kings Cross so hahaha but they're not proper biscuits, they're chocolate bars.

Oh Gods, the amount of times me and my boyfriend have argued over what constiutes a biscuit and what's a bar!

As far as I'm concerned, Cadbury's Snacks (you know, the little ones in yellow and gold foil wrapping) are bars. You can tell, becasue they are long, bar-shaped and individually wrapped. He insists they're biscuits becasue they have a biscuit base and are sold in the biscuit isle. Madness! (It's also a north/south divide thing- everyone from Dublin calls them bars, everyone in Belfast calls them biscuits. But they're wrong.)

Anyway, best biscuit ever is a McVities Rich Tea, covered in butter with another Rich Tea slapped on top.

Then dunked in coffee.

12:42 / 28.07.05

But cough candy twists are the best sweets, n'est pas?

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