On the suggestion of my friend and fellow blogger, The Aimless Wanderer, 'AW', I'm looking at which biscuits are the best for dunking into tea. AW's dilemma is that the biscuits she tends to use are fine on the surface but then on finishing the tea, she finds a mass of melted dunked biscuit.
Personally, I am not a dunker. I love biscuits with my tea but I do not dunk them into my tea. I also love a nice slice of cake to accompany my 'cuppa', preferring to keep tea and accompaniment separate.
My favourite 'tea biscuits' are:
Bourbons
Nice
Custard Creams
Shortbread
I must add that I do like other biscuits, including chocolate digestives BUT I prefer the above whilst drinking my tea.
However, according to a Telegraph article online, published some months ago, the chocolate digestive is the favourite biscuit of the nation. The article further delves into good 'dunking' practice and techniques.
Apparently, chocolate digestives came out in front of the others because,
"...their coating protected them from the effects of the hot tea..."
According to the source, the choc digestives can withstand, on average, at least eight seconds in tea OR coffee. For more information on biscuits related etiquette, you might also like to take a look at Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down!
Happy Dunking!
CBC
Camellia Coffee House
4 days ago
Try rusks. I dont know if you have heard of them, but very nice for dunking! If you havent heard of rusks then search google. They are a hard biscuit that is perfect for dunking, common in South Africa
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment Roibos. I think I've heard of rusks being given to babies and small children in milk as a form of cereal but I hadn't realised you could just eat them as is. If that is the same of similar biscuit, I can see that they'd be very absorptive and less likely to disintegrate so quickly! Hmm
ReplyDeleteI also though Ginger Nuts might be quite good for dunking since they are already quite hard.
BTW, I'm adding you to my links list! :)
ReplyDeleteHey CBC,
ReplyDeleteI love dunking my biscuits in tea... although for some reason have never done so if I'm drinking tea with another. Mainly because my Mum thinks its a terrible habit and has brainwashed me into not dunking biscuits in tea in front of company. Anyway thought you might like to know that I've found that chocolate hobnobs fare better than standard hobnobs (perhaps for a similar reason as to the chocolate digestives?)
:) xx