[HPFGU-OTChatter] Answer the biscuit question already

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

Hi --

Can't believe I'm weighing in on this group twice in one week (but I
love British food).

Neil Ward wrote:

> Digestives (digestive biscuits) are a very popular variety of 'short,'
> sweet wholemeal biscuit, which also come plain or half-coated with
> chocolate.

My husband could live on Digestives!  He thinks they are the perfect
food, and I buy them often from the British food store here.  Amanda --
you really need to come visit Houston.  You would love all the
delicacies available at this British store ... think of it .... clotted
cream, digestives, Cadbury chocolates, Turkish delights (which my
husband thinks are the most revolting thing ever) ....

> Biscuits usually refers to sweet biscuits, but there are also savoury
> biscuits (which we'd also call crackers).  One that always confuses me
> is
> "Graham crackers" - I can't remember if these are the same thing as
> our
> digestive biscuits or our cream crackers (square, crisp, savoury - go
> well with cheese?).

Graham crackers are closer to digestives than to cream crackers.

> I was offered biscuits and gravy in the US once and, although I
> understand what that is now, I gagged at that the thought of, for
> example, chocolate chip cookies soaking up thickened beef stock.

LOL!  Were you in the South?  If not, you were probably wise to turn
down this selection.  But, if you are in the South in the future, then
you simply must try this regional specialty.  Big, thick fluffy
buttermilk biscuits with cream gravy.  Yum!!  Cream gravy, as long as it
wasn't sausage gravy (which is cream gravy mixed with ground sausage),
might even be acceptable to vegetarian types such as you Neil.  I can't
think why cream gravy couldn't be made without animal fat.

Penny (going off to elevate her puffy swollen feet & read for a bit)
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