Digestive biscuits. McVitie's Digestive Cookies are one of my biggest vices. I first tried these British biscuits when studying abroad in Italy and quickly became hooked on their crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth texture and. Digestive biscuits are hard, semi-sweet biscuits sometimes known as sweetmeal biscuits.
Thank you Gemma for sharing this great little biscuit recipe with us, it is the perfect treat with a nice cup of tea. They may not be the most exotic biscuits in the world but there's nothing quite like the semi-sweet, slightly salty whole wheat flavour of a good ol' digestive. Homemade Digestive Biscuits are the latest result of my efforts to replace palm oil-laden, store bought products with delicious, easy homemade versions. You can have Digestive biscuits using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Digestive biscuits
- You need 480 g of whole wheat flour.
- You need 150 g of powdered sugar.
- Prepare 260 g of cold butter/margarine.
- You need 2 tsp. of Baking powder.
- You need 8 tsp of milk/water.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
Crunchy, crumbly and with a satisfying wholemeal. The bicarbonate of soda (or baking soda as my Canadian and American friends know it as) was added to them to act. McVitie's Digestive Biscuits are one of those vastly understated English things. (Ah shoot, probably Scotch or Irish, I have no idea, really, but somebody I suppose named McVitie had a great idea some. Do digestive biscuits really aid digestion?
Digestive biscuits instructions
- Preheat your oven to 170c.
- In a large bowl, add flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, cold butter and mix until mixture resembles bread crumbs.
- Add the milk and mix until it forms a firm dough.
- Divide the dough into two parts and roll out each onto a lightly floured surface or between parchment paper to your desired thickness..
- Using a round cutter, cut our the dough and remove the excess dough to roll out later..
- Place the cookie cut outs on a greased baking tray and using a skewer or tooth pick, poke holes all over the cookie dough and bake at 170c for 20mins..
- Its cooked when you press lightly on it and it's firm to the touch. Remove from the oven and let it cool before transferring to a plate..
- ENJOY!!!.
Ever thought if they are actually healthy for you? How many digestive biscuits do you have with tea? From a health point of view they are not. Digestive Biscuits are made from a mix of coarse wholewheat and white flours. They are firm, but still soft (rather than being crisp, like Crackers or Water Biscuits.) The biscuits are semi-sweet.
