From the box
Our Classic Recipes are made using traditionally authentic recipes and good old-fashioned ingredients.
From the list of ingredients printed on the box
Palm oil
Palm Kernel
Rapeseed oil
Soya Lecithin
Citric Acid
Glucose Syrup
Rice Flour
Sulphur Dioxide
Ammonium Bicarbonate
Disodium Diphosphate
Blimey - was my mother cutting corners when she made her traditionally authentic ginger biscuits? They were really good and were soon gobbled up, but I'm pretty sure she missed out the soya lecithin and sulphur dioxide at least. Was it because we were poor and couldn't afford these good old-fashioned ingredients?
My mum had similar problems with ingredients. Dad used to grow onions and broad beans in the garden, but the palms and the soya never really did well. Mind you, we used to waste a lot of sulphur dioxide up the chimney. I don't suppose you miss what you've never had, and our only excuse is ignorance.
ReplyDeleteSam - if we'd only known - think of all the nutritional advantages we must have missed.
ReplyDeleteAnd look what the palm oil industry is doing to wildlife.
ReplyDeleteMy mum never measured any ingredients, she just did the whole job of baking by eye, and the results were always fabulous!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, we used to have 'Bicarb' when we had a tummy uset, so that's not going anywhere here!
Burp.
ReplyDeleteSackers - although these biscuits have a sustainable palm oil claim on the pack.
ReplyDeleteScrobs - my mum wasn't particularly expert but she did some things well. I'll always remember the ginger biscuits.
Demetrius - that's the bicarb.
@AK: Sustainable - in terms of replacement palm trees, maybe; doesn't necessarily imply anything about nature conservation.
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