Digestives are an old time English custom, almost as time honoured as tea. A whole-wheat biscuit (don’t call this a cookie or any Brits within hearing range will shake their heads sympathetically in your direction, and feel sorry for your American - and therefore limited - knowledge of the world) from a time long before whole wheat was trendy, these biscuits have an appealing Moorish nuttiness, combined with a crumbly/melt in your mouth texture and are absolutely divine.
A few great uses for digestives; eat them as they are, or embrace the English custom and accompany them with a cup of tea. Use digestives to replace graham crackers in any recipe where graham crackers are called for. They are so much more flavourful, but beware; they are also richer, and will taste different.
Try smores made with digestives. Start by melting bittersweet or milk chocolate in the microwave for thirty seconds, stir and microwave again until smooth. Allow the chocolate to cool a little and thicken. Spread chocolate on the underside and allow it to set. You can do this several days before your planed smores indulgence. Set out for your campfire, open range, stove top, or candle with chocolate coated digestives, wooden skewers and a bag of marshmallows. Skewer the marshmallows on wooden skewers, and toast them. Once toasted, place in between two chocolate coated biscuits.
Better yet, if you want to avoid this whole palaver (English for nuisance) buy the chocolate coated biscuits to begin with. Either way, you’re in for a treat: English culinary expertise meets American tradition, at a camp fire… what could be better?
I found that you can order McVitties' digestives, and so many other English treats from http://www.shop.britishgoodsonline.com/.
A few great uses for digestives; eat them as they are, or embrace the English custom and accompany them with a cup of tea. Use digestives to replace graham crackers in any recipe where graham crackers are called for. They are so much more flavourful, but beware; they are also richer, and will taste different.
Try smores made with digestives. Start by melting bittersweet or milk chocolate in the microwave for thirty seconds, stir and microwave again until smooth. Allow the chocolate to cool a little and thicken. Spread chocolate on the underside and allow it to set. You can do this several days before your planed smores indulgence. Set out for your campfire, open range, stove top, or candle with chocolate coated digestives, wooden skewers and a bag of marshmallows. Skewer the marshmallows on wooden skewers, and toast them. Once toasted, place in between two chocolate coated biscuits.
Better yet, if you want to avoid this whole palaver (English for nuisance) buy the chocolate coated biscuits to begin with. Either way, you’re in for a treat: English culinary expertise meets American tradition, at a camp fire… what could be better?
I found that you can order McVitties' digestives, and so many other English treats from http://www.shop.britishgoodsonline.com/.
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