Biscuits

Wagon Wheels were huge weren't they? They are very disappointing now. I really miss Spangles.

A vote for Gypsy Creams from me, what happened to them?

my grandparents only ever had rich tea in!

I tell you what biscuits are nice and cheap, LU biscuits

DGS1 adores party rings now. I get him the little individual packets. It’s a Tunnocks Caramel Wafer for me - I think I’d tackle someone in the shop for the last pack!

Lemon puffs.
And fly biscuits, 🪰 (I think they were garibaldis).

squashed 🪰 🪰

I rarely had bought biscuits growing up as mum baked for the week. Once it was gone, it was gone. She made lovely gypsy creams, oaty biscuits, coffee kisses from the Bero book and shortbread but never chocolate biscuits. My favourite biscuit now is probably a KitKat

Rondello circa 1970, huge round melt in the mouth biscuits.

Lincoln,fruit shortcake,fig roll,t.cake(marshmallow)chocolate fingers,jammy dodgers,home made ones called melting moments my Nan used to make,marie,rich tea fingers,my memory is saying all the mini chocolate chip ones I ate while breast feeding in the middle of the night!, and a horrid memory of when I worked in a supermarket,I was filling the biscuit isle and on going upstairs to the warehouse found many corners of biscuit multi packs nibbled by mice.The mice were climbing quite high shelves and definetley choosing specific types.

Oooooo my mum baked everything and 1 of her homemade biscuits was called melting moments.

Mmmmmmm they were absolutely 😋. They were very similar to shortbread biscuits. She placed a ¼ of a cherry on top. 😋 😋 😋

HousePlantQueen

A vote for Gypsy Creams from me, what happened to them?

McVities don't make them anymore.

What about these as an alternative?

www.amazon.co.uk/Bakers-Romany-Creams-Original-200g/dp/B003N7Y0KI?tag=gransnetforum-21

I loved Mint Bandit and Carrs Sports.

In my Grandad’s grocery shop (late 50s/early 60s) I remember the glass lidded boxes of loose biscuits all along the front of the counter. The end box always had a mixture of broken ones! The only biscuits I remember at home were Royal Scott, my favourites, Nice, which I hated and those thin shortbready ones with a hole in the middle, I don’t knew what they were called and I’ve never found them since!

Serendipity22

Oooooo my mum baked everything and 1 of her homemade biscuits was called melting moments.

Mmmmmmm they were absolutely 😋. They were very similar to shortbread biscuits. She placed a ¼ of a cherry on top. 😋 😋 😋

I still bake melting moments, sometimes replacing the cherry with raspberry jam.

GrandmaSeaDragon

In my Grandad’s grocery shop (late 50s/early 60s) I remember the glass lidded boxes of loose biscuits all along the front of the counter. The end box always had a mixture of broken ones! The only biscuits I remember at home were Royal Scott, my favourites, Nice, which I hated and those thin shortbready ones with a hole in the middle, I don’t knew what they were called and I’ve never found them since!

Oh I loved Royal Scot biscuits 😋. My late DM used to sandwich two together with icing, ice the top and then sprinkles. These were a birthday party treat

Gipsy creams were a favourite here too.
I often had a Viscount mint chocolate biscuit in my school lunch box as a Friday treat.

Biscuits aren`t a patch on what they used to be. I had a large box bought me at Christmas, they look delicious, but they`re chewy, rather than crispy, and not much taste to them. Very disappointing. If you`re wondering, they`re Fox`s Family Assortment.

GrandmaSeaDragon Thank you for reminding me of those glass topped tins of biscuits which I remember from my parents’s grocery shop in the 1940’s and 50’s . They were weighed and sold in brown paper bags.
My favourites from the shop were Penguins and Malted Milk.

I loved Royal Scott biscuits * HousePlantQueen* whatever happened to them? Also, they could be bought in small packs from vending machines at Railway stations and the like.
Does anyone remember Lincoln biscuits? - they had dimples all over.
Lemon puffs don’t taste quite the same, I recall them being much stickier😋

I find that biscuits go stale very quickly compared to years ago and suspect it maybe because so many “additives” have been removed and/or cheaper fats/oils used or replaced. Palm oil has been removed from many foods, and with good reason, but was it tastier and better keeping

No one’s ever heard of my favourite childhood biscuits
They were called Dads Cookies and the nearest I can get to now is Hob Nobs but they were different
I used to love dipping them in

Deedaa

Wagon Wheels were huge weren't they? They are very disappointing now. I really miss Spangles.

I know what you mean, wagon wheels are smaller, except they aren’t.
Back in the day you could, apparently, fit a wagon wheel exactly in the top of a traditional Scot’s mutton pie. And you still can and some of the pie presses are over 100 years old.
It appears it’s because we have got bigger, not the mallow delights smaller.

Can’t remember what they were called but I used to love a biscuit with lines of marshmallow and jam then covered in coconut. Or marshmallow and chocolate tea cakes.

Please Gransnet, can you get rid of these pop ups?😒