BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)

Subject: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed
From: Penny S.
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 01:01 PM

I buy boxes of broken biscuits, mostly not very broken, because it's cheaper, and my most frequent visitor eats through huge quantities. But I now have a tinful of bits that are two small to eat as biscuits. I have made refrigerator cake, and found a recipe for a biscuit pudding on the same lines as bread pudding.

I don't need any cheesecake just now, and have enough crumbs anyway.

Any ideas? Preferably something that I can eat very quickly or that keeps very well.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 01:06 PM

Key Lime pie base?

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed
From: Penny S.
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 01:11 PM

I have a lot of the stuff, and making bases for all those lovely American desserts would take too long to get rid of it. And make me fatter faster, as I would have to eat them quickly! (So also the refrigerator cake/tiffin/chocolate concrete/rocky road path, though I could keep them longer.)

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 03:24 PM

Pile fresh berries on top and make a quickie Summer Pudding type thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 04:37 PM

Mix them up with Greek yoghurt.

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 04:46 PM

Bakeless cake, broken biscuits raisins and melted chocolate, all mixed together, put in the fridge, and slice when cold.

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Penny S.
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 05:19 PM

John, that's what I was calling refrigerator cake - and there's one in the fridge at the moment.

I've sort of gone with the fruity idea, but will add the yoghurt instead of the custard. I've made strawberry jelly (jello) which took an age to dissolve, poured it over them in a glass bowl, and I'm on my way to soggy biscuit trifle. I didn't put the fruit into it, for keeping purposes, but will add on serving.

I'm sure the situation will arise again, so any other ideas will be gratefully received.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 05:35 PM

Well I crumble biscuits over stewed apples, and other stewed fruit, then add evaporated milk, sort of quick and easy apple crumble.
So that's another use

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Penny S.
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 05:39 PM

That's good.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 05:49 PM

Gee, we would love some!
Just put them out in your yard and we will pay with song.
Your neighbourhood sparrows.

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Penny S.
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 05:52 PM

Don't have any sparrows round here. Don't know why. They're over in Gloucestershire, and every railway station from Paris to Bucharest, and Venice. But not NW Kent. Only the pigeons would go for them - the other birds are very picky.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 06:30 PM

You can have back the sparrows that were brought over here....

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 04:03 AM

and here!

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Darowyn
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 04:09 AM

It is well known amongst dieters that when a biscuit breaks, all the calories fall out.
So eating them, even set in chocolate, will never make you fat!
This is especially true if you eat them when nobody else sees you do it.
Cheers
Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 04:39 AM

Icecream. Either the 'brown bread' variety or 'fruit crumble' style. Not really the season for it I know, but at least it won't need to be gobbled up too fast.

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 04:43 AM

In fact here's an icecream recipe called 'cookies and cream' (don't ben & jerry do one like that too?)

http://www.food.com/recipe/cookies-n-cream-ice-cream-126436

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: C-flat
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 05:09 AM

First drop your biscuits......

Oh! It's not a recipe for broken biscuits you want??

Anyway I'm no longer allowed them, like my computer, the settings don't allow "cookies"!

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Mr Red
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 06:48 AM

if you sieve the bits and select lumps rather than crumbs you could include them in biscuit recipes where the texture is less crunchy.

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Penny S.
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 08:52 AM

I have a jelly problem, apparently. I am assuming that the stuff has passed its sell-by date and the long chain molecules or the cross linkages have denatured or something. First the cubes were very, very reluctant to melt. Now it is very, very reluctant to gel. I have sloppy semi-gelled oozy biscuits lurking in the fridge. There are little lumplets of red gel interspersed with liquid. Tastes OK. But I shan't repeat it. Or recommend it.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 10:44 AM

Another no bake cake recipe is to use broken (or whole) ginger biscuits. Dip each one in strong coffee mixed with rum or tipple of choice and sandwich all together with cream, not too thick just enough hold it together in individual dishes or a bigger one and leave until chilled and you have a ready to serve chilled boozy pudding. You can serve this with real vanilla ice-cream or creme fraiche.

There was a time that supermarkets sold broken biscuits at a cheaper price but I haven't seen that for a long time so often I resort to bashing digestives in a plastic bag with a rolling pin. Biscuit bases are brilliant I am not the best pastry maker so it's ideal for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 11:43 AM

Penny S, your saying that the 'jelly' cube was slow to melt is interesting. In the States, 'jello' comes in a loose, granulated form. I have no idea of what there 'sell by' date would be.

Funnily enough, I have a jello story. I really don't eat it myself but our Friday night music host loves the stuff, plus he is an autoharp player and says it is good for his fingernails. However, he is legally blind and as he says, it's not a good idea to turn him loose with boiling water. His wife has no patience with jello or jello eating. So every Friday night of the last few years I take along a bowl of jello for him; lots of different flavors- he likes them all. Five minutes of my time- and everybody is happy.

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 09:18 PM

Penny,

I can assure you from experience :-) that 10 year old jelly crystals will not set!

:-0

Been there, done that...

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Penny S.
Date: 28 Oct 10 - 06:30 AM

In the UK, jelly is sold as a dense gel block with cross cuts to enable it to be broken into cubes. Somewhere between a made jelly and fruit gum sweets. These normally melt pretty quickly. My favourite brand, using real fruit juice, has been difficult to find, so I have been hoarding! (I think I'll eat the older ones as sweets!)

The common brand is one my Dad had an objection to. In WWII, he was a concientious objector, and enrolled in the Royal Engineers Pioneer Corps, intending to go into Bomb Disposal. Instead, he was engaged in clearing up bomb sites, reclaiming bricks, and other essential tasks to keep the country running while under attack. One such task was restoring use of the factory of a well-known jam manufacturer. The word came down from the management that the Corps was not to eat with the workers in the canteen because they didn't want conchies there. Dad turned down the opportunity of a job with them in their accunts department after the war, and we never ate any of their products.

I did hear recently about the bombing of that factory, and it has occurred to me that there may have been another reason for this ban. There were workers killed during the bombing, rather nastily, and if I had been in charge, I would not have wanted the survivors to hear about the details of what happened from the clear-up crew. I'm pretty sure that by the time Dad was there, that area had been cleaned, because there was a Boys Brigade song he used to sing which he would not have been able to sing had he seen what was there. It would have been much easier to say the company was banning conchies, than that it was banning people who might reveal how colleagues had died.

Still, I don't eat their stuff.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 03:32 AM

I'm not sure if it was an old wives tale but when I was young I was told that eating jelly squares from the block was good for the hair and nails. Has anyone else heard that one?

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Little Robyn
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 07:16 PM

I use straight gelatine, a teaspoonful mixed in my early morning cuppa, and I'll swear it's keeping the arthritis at bay. My fingers and other joints are great. (And I'll be 65 next week!)
There's a recipe in today's paper for Christmas cake made using 2 packs of malt biscuits, crushed, chopped walnuts, brandy, golden syrup, marmalade, icing sugar, butter, mixed spice, raisins, pitted prunes, glace peel, glace cherries and pitted dates.
I guess you'd call it a refrigerator cake but you could plan ahead for Christmas - and add whatever fruit or alcohol you fancy.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 30 Oct 10 - 01:46 PM

GUEST, Patsy mentioned gingersnaps which triggered a memory and sent me scurrying to an old cookbook. If you have a sauerbraten recipe that calls for gingersnaps, this is another way to use ginger biscuit crumbs since with cooking and stirring the biscuits are supposed to get crumbled and absorbed. You'll have to guesstimate the amount of crumbs that equal a cookie, but I say the more the better! If you don't have a recipe like that, google sauerbraten recipe with ginger snaps and you'll find many to choose from.

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Penny S.
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 03:18 AM

Mine has now disappeared. I added beaten egg to the mess and cooked it in a low oven, producing a sort of cheesecakey textured thing with a crust. This I took (after checking it was edible) to a do at our Friends meeting, and it all disappeared. One of the friends could taste the jelly - I couldn't. Only two slices remain.

Next time I'll go straight to the egg option.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 03:27 AM

When it comes to biscuits, and Ebbie speaks, it would do you well to listen up!!!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Broken biscuit recipes needed (cookies in US)
From: Penny S.
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 03:27 AM

Incidentally, a sparrow has turned up. One female, accompanying a dunnock and a wren.