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Plain digestive biscuits with tea, jam and cakes on a serving tray. Digestive biscuits are frequently eaten with tea or coffee. Sometimes, the biscuit is dunked into the tea and eaten quickly due to the biscuit's tendency to disintegrate when wet. Digestive biscuits are one of the top 10 biscuits in the UK for dunking in tea. [5]
Sir Alexander Grant, 1st Baronet (1 October 1864 – 21 May 1937) was a Scottish businessman, biscuit manufacturer and philanthropist. He was managing director of McVitie and Price Ltd., developed the recipe of the McVitie's digestive biscuit, and gave an endowment of £200,000 to help establish the National Library of Scotland.
The Abernethy biscuit is an adaptation of the plain captain's biscuit or hardtack, with the added ingredients of sugar (for energy), and caraway seeds because of their reputation for having a carminative (prevents flatulence) effect [4] making them beneficial in digestive disorders. The biscuit is between an all butter biscuit and a shortcake ...
Biscuits: 1 August 2017: 2.77 Gregg and Cherry visit the McVitie's factory to look at the production of chocolate digestive biscuits. Cherry looks at the preparation of the chocolate and the creation of the bronze moulds used to make biscuits. [5] Special: Christmas 2017: 18 December 2017: 2.91
1865: a soft biscuit, the "Pearl". This was the first soft-biscuit introduced by a UK-based manufacturer; 1875: the "Marie", an Anglicised version of the Galletas Marías; 1899: the first chocolate covered sweet digestive biscuit, marketed as the "Chocolate Table" 1902: "Pat-a-Cake" shortbread; 1909: the "Golden Puff"
The Hovis biscuit is a British manufactured digestive biscuit. Manufactured under license from 1980 from Hovis by Nabisco 's then Irish subsidiary Jacob's , [ 1 ] they are shaped like a miniature flat copy of the traditional Hovis loaf , and like the bread have the word "HOVIS" stamped on their top surface.
The exception to savoury biscuits is the sweetmeal digestive known as the "Hovis biscuit", which, although slightly sweet, is still classified as a cheese biscuit. [32] Savoury biscuits sold in supermarkets are sometimes associated with a certain geographical area, such as Scottish oatcakes or Cornish wafer biscuits.
From the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, she and Jim Monaghan developed home-made bombs and weapons. One was called the "biscuit launcher", [35] which was used several times by the IRA: using readily available parts, it fired armour-piercing missiles packed with semtex explosive, using packets of digestive biscuits to absorb the recoil.