How many biscuits?

Gingernuts are best for dunking in tea.

At work Malted Milk, (Malted Moo Cow biscuits) and Custard creams proved popular. I used take in plain chocolate digestive as I prefered them and most people prefered the Milk chocolate sort! Greedy me!

Don't get me wrong – I have no objection to dunking biscuits in tea or coffee and sometimes do so myself, although not in public. It's dunking chocolate biscuits that appals me. I think I have also heard of people dunking custard creams. These are also supposed to be Britain's most popular biscuit, but I think they are an abomination unless home-made.

Soon after DD1 was born, I shocked myself by getting through half a packet of custard creams at once. I was breastfeeding. I guess I needed the sugar.

With DD3, I wanted crisps every day. I don't eat them much normally (once a year maybe). I guess I needed the salt.

I'm not keen on croissants (though I might be in France; I expect they are better there). The idea of dunking them in cocoa sounds fine to me, though I probably wouldn't (you never know though!). Butter is good food and so is cocoa.

Funny how tastes vary so much, innit?

[Goes back to eating abominations]

Bags Have you been gorging on abominations all day?

Biscotti brutti ma buoni (ugly but good biscuits) and amaretti are nice dunked in white wine.

Yesterday's french bread, buttered (salted), dunked in a bowl of hot choc. Nothing like it.

Of course, absent! I never do anything else!

Bags I remember (this might surprise you!) being a Girl Guide at camp, and having a secret midnight feast in our tent. Somehow we had got hold of a cardboard box of custard creams (not the piddling little packets you get these days). I must have munched my way through at least half of that box of biscuits! It was so enjoyable. One of my happiest memories.

Still love custard creams. (though they have made them "lighter" now

The dear GChildren were coming round yesterday so I tried out Lorraine Pascall's recipe for American Choc Chip cookies. You have GOT to try this. It's in her first book on baking. I've tried lots of recipes for cookies, allegedly for the Gkids, but this was just perfect, despite the fact I put the wrong type of flour in and swopped some of the chocolate chips for chopped white and plain chocolate. Very very chocolatey. I had to give most to Gkids to take home but managed to keep a few which I am gradually nibbling my way through. They are rather large but I keep breaking bits off. Going to bed now before I stray into the kitchen again.

There's a book called 'A nice cup of tea and sit-down', very humorously written, that describes all the different kinds of biscuits. I do recommend it.

That should read 'A nice cup of tea and a sit-down' - sorry.

Isn't it funny how "cup of tea" is so often preceded by "nice"? As if you'd want a nasty cup of tea?

I never dunk biscuits but that might be because I only eat other people's as it is a well known fact that there are no calories in food taken from someone else's plate. Don't tell Glass or I'll be back in detention!