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  • redbull08 wrote: »
    empirebiscuit.JPG every bakers shop in every town ?????:confused:

    Hand on heart - I would never have known that was an empire biscuit! Is that fresh cream in the middle - it looks very nice:D
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  • redbull08
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    Skint_Catt wrote: »
    redbull - I don't think every baker in every town do make them - never heard of them before in my life!
    :T


    sorry
    ive been eating them for 50 odd years
    (hence Slimming World)
    :D :rotfl:
    i just thought they were nationwide! :confused:
    Empire Biscuits

    . In Scotland they are thought to be a Scottish thing, but we are hardly known for our empire! They apparently originated from Germany or Belgium, surprisingly enough being called "German Biscuits" or "Belgium Biscuits", however after the World War 1, due to rationing, they lost their icing ... and became "Empire Biscuits" (clearly due to an anti German sentiment!). After the war, icing was put back on and they retained the new title of "Empire biscuits".
  • redbull08
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    edited 21 September 2009 at 10:34PM
    Hand on heart - I would never have known that was an empire biscuit! Is that fresh cream in the middle - it looks very nice:D
    http://www.ciao.co.uk/empire_biscuits__7267993

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_biscuit

    no its jam......

    Empire biscuits is a shortcake i think with jam in the middle & icing on top
    & a cherry on top
    very more-ish,
    oooopps! I shouldnt be putting these fattening things on this thread, lol :rotfl::rotfl:

    check this out http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1619391
  • redbull08
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    aha! got it

    http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/reviews.php3?item=22


    Phil Parker's Empire Biscuits review



    empirebiscuit.JPGThe Russians have caviar, the French fine wine, but beating them all, the Scots have the delicious Empire Biscuit.
    Available from nearly all bakeries as well as most Spars and Co-ops north of the border and none in the south (Americans note, this means England), the Empire Biscuit is formed from two shortbread biscuits with a filling of sorts topped by icing and a glace cherry.
    A biscuit for those with a sweet tooth as the icing is very sickly no matter who the maker is. Fortunately the coating is thin and the shortbread dampens the taste a little. The biscuit material is soft and crumbly when fresh and even softer should you leave it for a day or two thus establishing its biscuit credentials. The filling is that indistinguishable stuff that has no natural ingredients and no real taste; but it performs its duty of holding the two biscuits together very effectively allowing the eater to work his or her way around the edge leaving the section with the cherry on it as a prize at the end of the session. This biscuit has absolutely no potential for dunking. Indeed even the thought of putting something like this in tea is abhorrent. The name is a mystery as Scotland isn't a country known for its empire. Perhaps the canny Celts are taking the rise out of the neighbours for the loss of theirs ?
  • Skint_Catt
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    I can taste Bakewells........:drool:
  • redbull08
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    :rolleyes: I had one earlier :rolleyes:
    well i HAD to didnt I?
    bought it at Greggs for gs
    he didnt want it
    I tried to chuck it in the bin..... like a good lil Slimming World member:p
    but it wouldnt go
    then it accidentally fell in my mouth
    pinocchio.jpg
  • just 1/2lb off for me this week - haven't had the best of weeks to be honest - tried hard but struggling with emotions which = struggling with food :(

    BUT its still a loss (which as we all know is so much better than a gain or a maintain)

    Going to start afresh in the morning, plan my meals, drink plenty of water and write everything down... and try my "goal dress" on. Once I lose another 3lbs I'll "just" be overweight instead of obese :o so will try to keep that in my mind this week too as my next mini-target.
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  • redbull08 wrote: »
    :rolleyes: I had one earlier :rolleyes:
    well i HAD to didnt I?
    bought it at Greggs for gs
    he didnt want it
    I tried to chuck it in the bin..... like a good lil Slimming World member:p
    but it wouldnt go
    then it accidentally fell in my mouth
    pinocchio.jpg
    Oh my God that's terrible..
    Same thing happens to me? Is there a group we can join?
    Heehee, you made me smile..x
  • Weighed in tonight and lost 3 1/2 lbs which was great found those extra syns that had crept in when started weighing my cearel and realised had been having double helping easily done and it soon racks up those syns but all my weighing proved worth it lets hope I do goo next week happy loosing to all.
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  • redbull08
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    just 1/2lb off for me this week - haven't had the best of weeks to be honest - tried hard but struggling with emotions which = struggling with food :(

    BUT its still a loss (which as we all know is so much better than a gain or a maintain)

    Going to start afresh in the morning, plan my meals, drink plenty of water and write everything down... and try my "goal dress" on. Once I lose another 3lbs I'll "just" be overweight instead of obese :o so will try to keep that in my mind this week too as my next mini-target.
    still a loss have you seen half a pound of lard/fat/butter
    its a good loss, we cant really do the 2/3 lb loss each wk can we?
    i lost that last week, 1/2 a lb i mean
    despite the fact id been q.good & done some 'body magic' too power walking
    im just counting anything thats a loss as good :T
    well done
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