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02-06-2009, 10:20 AM | #1 | |
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Bisquits
Excuse the whimsical title. I mean biscuits.
British biscuits. Request them if you wish - as long as I have the money for postage I surely will oblige. However I was never sure if our biscuits (roughly translated as cookies) would suit an American palate. Clod suggests they will. From her response to me re the biscuit box I sent as part of Secret Santa: Quote:
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02-06-2009, 10:32 AM | #2 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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I'd be just a touch leary of sending food stateside these days.
I now of course need to know which biccies you sent:P I havent got it in me to go trawling to find the pics....enlighten me? |
02-06-2009, 10:38 AM | #3 |
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It was a Family Circle box. I think... how awful to forget.
Contents that I remember correlate to Clod's description - I can't remember anything else!
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02-06-2009, 10:42 AM | #4 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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what was the sugar cookie then?
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02-06-2009, 10:50 AM | #5 |
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Ummmm. Sugar cookie with coconut?
I don't know what it's properly called. But Mum got a box of spiggits for Christmas from one of the places she house-sits. Luckily, they gauged her tastes correctly at Council Estate, so it wasn't a box of Duchy Originals or anything. There was a yummy coconutty one, that in our box had a chocolate base. I imagine Clod's was the same - sans chocolate. I think ours might have been M&S actually. Not typical British fare and not available within the Secret Santa budget Added: T'internet tells me that it is a Coconut Cookie. No surprise there then!
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02-06-2009, 11:04 AM | #6 | |
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Cook Time: 15 minutes Ingredients: 3 cups shredded coconut 1 cup sweetened condensed milk 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon almond extract Preparation: Generously grease baking sheets. Combine all ingredients; stir until well blended. Drop by teaspoonfuls, 1 inch apart, on prepared baking sheets. Press down with the back of spoon to even thickness. Bake at 350° for 15 minutes, or until macaroons are golden brown. Cool 5 minutes; remove from baking sheet.
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02-06-2009, 11:22 AM | #7 |
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It sounds completely correct,
But... Macaroons make me laugh. Why? Because the air-raid sirens in this country are called maroons. And although Mum was too young to hear then, she grew up with the term. For no real reason other than mutation of language, she started calling them Macaroons. Given that they go off at 11.00 on 11 November, this silly family joke gets an outing every year. Me & my bro laugh every time. Then again, the real Remembrance Day is a solemn occasion for us, and the silence is always observed AND taken up with thinking of the fallen.
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02-06-2009, 11:37 AM | #9 |
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Makes me laugh becaue of that character in 'Acorn Antiques' Can't remember her name. Played by Julie Walters. Used to stagger on with her tray of coconut macaroons. I see that word and can only ever hear her pronunciation.
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02-06-2009, 11:39 AM | #10 |
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The flavor was a bit like a macaroon, but the texture was totally different. There were no pieces of actual coconut in it, it just tasted vaguely coconutty. Like it had been made with coconut milk maybe, although I'm sure it wasn't. But yes, it was a big red Family Circle box with about twenty different kinds.
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02-06-2009, 12:56 PM | #11 |
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Was it a Nice biscuit, perhaps?
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02-06-2009, 01:07 PM | #12 |
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Oooooh. I lurve Nice biscuits!
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02-06-2009, 01:51 PM | #13 |
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Nope. It was round, and had a rough texture on top, kind of like crystallized sugar, except it wasn't.
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02-06-2009, 02:28 PM | #14 |
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Fox's assortment and Chocolate HobNobs are to die for. I miss the cheap generic Sainsbury's chocolate and vanilla cremes too.
I wanna move back to England, the land of Nandos and McVities' Chocolate Caramel digestives. *sniff* |
02-06-2009, 05:23 PM | #15 |
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OMG...I have to find me a box! They all sound so yummy.
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