Before this day is over, I must tell you that it is National Biscuit Day in the UK! (Wait, it is now the next day over there...oh well!)
Of course, I have told you before that a biscuit in America is a soft breakfast bread but in England, it is a cookie!
(My Dad made the BEST and softest biscuits that you can imagine. Everyone said so, they were the best.)
One of my good friends went to England a few months ago and brought me back some...oh, they make me happy just to think of them...she brought me some HOBNOBS! They are so good!
I still have two left...can you tell that I have tried to keep them as long as I can? I just looked it up and Hobnobs are the third most popular biscuit over there! Let's see, I think I read that Jammie Dodgers and Custard Creams are the top two but some say that the Rich Tea and the Ginger Nut are tops. Me? I love them ALL! I don't have favorites when it comes to English biscuits. (Jaffa cakes, Kay? Yes, please!)
When we come back from England, we are loaded down with teabags, chocolate and biscuits!
We would not have been able to bring these back in the heat we are having these days...we have had many days with our temps over 90 degrees!
What is your favorite cookie/biscuit? Do tell me, you know I want to know!
P.S. No cookie/biscuit companies are sending me anything for this post. HOWEVER, if a company happens to read this and they WISH to send me boxes and boxes, I will happily accept them, even if they are half melted when they get here!
I love any cookie that does not have coconut in it.
ReplyDeleteI love any that DOES have coconut in it :-)
DeleteDebra, my Canadian friend, I will have to side with my German friend on this one, I love coconut! The Bounty bar in England, I hope you have tried that one when you are in Yorkshire, Meike!
DeleteKay, we have Bounty in Germany, too - I have known and loved it since childhood :-)
DeleteThat is great! Does it have the same wrapping,in blue and white with a coconut tree? I even love the paper it comes in! We have a Mounds bar here but the chocolate is not as good! The Almond Joy is the same bar but with one almond. Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't - that was their funny ad from the 70's.😊
DeleteI love Chips Ahoy dunked in milk.
ReplyDeleteI am so old I remember when Chips Ahoy first came out! (And it sounds like SHIPS AHOY...I always loved ships.)
DeleteMy favorite is the iced sugar cookie. I also love good shortbread. Sometimes a chocolate chip cookie is just right. I wonder if the U.S. has a National Cookie Day. If not, we should start one. I see that the beloved Mumbai escorts have spammed you. We're all ready now for a trip to Mumbai because who doesn't want to hire an escort? Hahaha.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
When I was a kid, the iced sugar cookies were my favorite at church gatherings...I never saw them anywhere but at church! Pink icing, it was so good! And shortbread cookies are very good with hot tea! That MUMBAI escort, I get that ALL the time. Drives me crazy!
DeleteWho doesn't want to go to Mumbai to hire an escort?
DeleteI don't want to go.
What an excellent subject! My favourite, along with most of Australia, would have to be the Tim Tam, loaded with chocolate and caramel yumminess. I have not heard of Hobnobs, but I will try to seek them out when we go to England later this year. How civilised to have a National Biscuit Day.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Tim Tams! I have a pack in my fridge right now! Richard found them at our local grocery store, he just saw that they were from Australia and he guessed (correctly!) that I would love them! You will love Hobnobs, I am sure of it! So good with a cup of tea.
DeleteAlmost all bisuits/cookies appeal to me, that's why i have to avoid them!
ReplyDeleteI am old now so...I have to space them out carefully.
DeleteI am not too keen on ones with jam, but anything that is nutty and/or chocolatey and/or buttery is good!
ReplyDeleteAll that Yorkshire Tea on your picture! And Toblerone is Swiss, as you know of course :-)
Most of the things in the photo were brought back to our son and to our friends, but the TEA is all ours!!
DeleteWe can buy Toblerone here but it is better from England. Maybe I can buy it in Switzerland one day!
Do you know the secret, of getting something, from a company? :-))) When I especially enjoy a product, I email the company and tell them! Chances are, I get some coupons, toward the purchase of my next one of their products. :-)))
ReplyDeleteYes, I do not that biscuits are cookies in the U.K. :-))) I have trouble with other terms, like verges and etc. I love the sound of them, but have to look up their meanings.
The terms of different countries are so interesting. Even of different parts of our country. And the "sayings" too.
I once wrote a letter to the Butt Rub company, and told them how much my Dad loved their product. I gave them his address...he was surprised to get a big box with packets of Butt Rub and a nice big apron! (This product is a spicy meat rub!)
DeleteBeing married to a Brit, I still get tickled by the different words they use...a hood on a car is a bonnet! My Dad would say "ever day" not "every day". Sure do miss my Dad.
Oh I would love to smell your magnolia! Oh mercy, it must be heavenly. -happy sigh-
ReplyDeleteThe magnolia is from the Monastery here in Conyers. It does smell heavenly, the trees line the road there and it is a quarter mile drive. They re directed the road and now that road has no cars, you can just walk past the trees, roughly 30 to 40 giant trees! You can look it up on Google and see the big trees.
DeleteWhen we spent a month in the UK in '98, staying in self catering places, going to the grocery stores was always such fun....Hobnobs are my favorite cookie, too.
ReplyDeleteAnd I bet you like the flowers that sold there too, an I right? Aren't they just amazing? That is something I always liked to buy for my mother in law while I was there. She died last year, sure do miss her.
DeleteAnd my favorite homemade cookie here is a good oatmeal raisin one.
ReplyDeleteHomemade cookies are the best ones, no matter what kind!😊 Hope you are doing well these days and staying away from poison ivy!
DeleteGorgeous magnolias. Well, at least you can get the Toblerones and Snickers here in the U.S. We loved Timtams that someone brought us a long time ago and then found them in Costco! Good grief! You must be the only person who remembers Pinwheels.
ReplyDeleteI am an expert on movies and cookies. Small town Georgia girls have to find joy in what they have available!😊 Oh! And flowers and music, quite knowledgeable in those as well. xx
DeleteI love shortbread cookies with fudge stripes on top.
ReplyDeleteThat is one of our son's favorites. The Hob Nobs are a whole meal oat cookie covered in chocolate, I bet you would like it too!
DeleteI remember you writing about your Dad's biscuits in at least one earlier post. I was thinking how wonderful they sounded and remember that my mouth was literally watering when I read about them. As for cookies, oh Lord, there are so many kinds that I love. My Great Aunt Nan used to make gingersnaps with clarified bacon fat. Sooo goood! And my Mom made raspberry jam thimbles (?) that were something like the Jammie Dodgers. Peanut butter blossoms ~ the ones with a chocolate Hershey kiss on top. Homemade oatmeal raisin cookies, chocolate chip cookies, and shortbread. I could go on and on! Now I'm starving! Thanks a lot ~ LOL! Wishing you sweet dreams!
ReplyDeleteNot only have I written about my Dad's biscuits, I have several photos of them on my blog as well! I bet you would like my peanut butter cookies too! Homemade is always the best. Take care, and watch out for expensive gelato! 😊
DeleteOne thing I have noticed with both chocolate and biscuits over here is that many are half the size they used to be a few years ago, including Mars Bars and Snickers. I like blueberry muffins and rainbow cookies- both obviously inspired by USA brands but made here by supermarkets. I like them because they have not shrunk yet.
ReplyDeleteAh, the Mars bar...that is really my favorite. And you are correct, it has shrunk over the years. Not just the size of it eithet, I notice that the chocolate used to be thicker on it. Do you know that in America we call it a candy bar but it is never called that in the UK, but it is a chocolate bar there. Our muffins here are gigantic, about the size of my head! What about doughnuts? Have they become popular there? They are practically worshiped here. Me, I can't stand them!
DeleteI have a recipe for English shortbread cookies with chocolate chips and brickle bits. Hmmmm mmmm good!
ReplyDeleteI do love that kind of biscuit/cookie with a cup of tea! Your recipe sounds very good indeed.😊
DeleteI do enjoy a cup of Yorkshire Tea :)
ReplyDeleteHave to say I don't eat that many biscuits now … but I remember when young and coming home from school my dear mum would have a glass of milk poured for me and a digestive biscuit … sweet memories.
All the best Jan
Yorkshire Tea does not know me from a used teabag but they can also send me boxes of tea if they read this! Your memory of a digestive biscuit with milk, that is lovely. All the best to you!
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