As if you needed another excuse?!
Crumbly, crunchy, soft and fruity, gooey perhaps, crispy, buttery, covered in chocolate, sandwiched with jam; even the mighty Gluten Free or wholesome vegan Biscuit can’t atone for the feeling of sin when scoffing a stack of golden rounds after pots and pots of tea.
Hey, today though, it’s not naughty, you can let yourself off.
Yes you can reach for that biscuit tin! It’s ok if you had a cookie with coffee, a rich tea at morning-tea, a cracker with lunch and short affair with shortbread in the afternoon. What ever your fancy, you can very well ‘take the biscuit’ today.
I usually try to be ‘good’. I usually start a packet of Biscuits a week or two prior, carefully unravelling the rolled wrapper, to only take the first few from the top to return them to the dark cupboard for when needed again. However it’s always the same. On my desperate return for a biscuit, there’s always a softened stale pile? Why? Oh Why, if it’s not stale biscuits, it’s a half-biscuit drowning tea disaster. Peter Kay knows what I mean. “Quick! Mum! Get a spoon, my b-i-s-c-u-i-t, he plays in slow motion. I think we’ve all been there, Peter.
Other than loosing your bicky overboard in a hot beverage, another reason for biscuit disappointment is that apparently, the Sugar in biscuits is absorbent and biscuits are generally high in sugar. So it’s the sugar content’s fault it’s absorbing moisture from the atmosphere. So when biscuits are left out, or stored in un-airtight containers their sugar content mops ups the moisture in the air and hence why biscuits, high in sugar (who knew) go disappointingly soft.
Now, there’s no way on Earth that having biscuits like these are going to last past going stale.
Traditional Torta de Aciete Handmade(!) biscuits are lightly spiced with flecks of anise for a surprisingly different sophisticated twist on a biscuit, made with deliciously fruity Spanish Olive oil and the Almond variety is delicate and not at all over sweet, too.
Going Against The Grain, but totally satisfying my cravings, there are these utterly scrumptious Gluten Free, Organic chocolate chip cookies, they’ve kept all of the nasties out of their recipes to enable them to cram toasted hazelnuts and generous chocolate chips in the mix. Against The Grain’s berry delicious cookies are also a bit special; again gluten free they’re sweetened with apple juice to avoid the need of adding refined sugars; sweet cranberries and tart raspberries do all the flavouring to leave your taste buds singing. I’m sure these fine treats will leave not-so-much of a crumb trail, let alone being left to soften. The only thing that will soften is my sides, should I find myself unable to resist polishing off more biscuits than usual today.
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