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  • Royal William Yard

    house with a chimney, with one engine to the north and the other to the south (the engines also powered biscuit-making The biscuits were dried on the upper floors of the side ranges; there was also a drying kiln above the It's worth noting here that "ship's biscuits" were the staple diet of the British Navy and were designed Initially the main diet was biscuits and beer until it was eventually possible to carry safe fresh water

  • Launceston

    They offer some of the most expensive biscuits ever made. The company's first and most well-known item is an oaten biscuit made from organically grown wheat and To find out how expensive they are I Googled "Duchy Original Oaten Biscuits" and "Waitrose", the sort All these years have gone by and I hadn't realised all I had to do was eat some oat biscuits and I would

  • A Tea Break and Some Feoffes

    December 2020- This is my slightly humorous title for today, because there are no biscuits today even though a biscuit called Feoffes sounds like it would be delicious. Normally you would have biscuits during a tea break but we are having a break to discuss tea which gives us a break from posts about biscuits. In that case it is also a biscuit break as opposed to a broken biscuit.

  • Royal William Yard

    the slaughtering of live animals for fresh meat, the manufacture of barrels, the baking of bread and biscuits house with a chimney, with one engine to the north and the other to the south (the engines also powered biscuit-making The biscuits were dried on the upper floors of the side ranges; there was also a drying kiln above the

  • Cream on First

    A cream tea is a warm scone, similar to what Americans call a biscuit, which is nothing like a British biscuit which is what an American would call a cookie. So we have a warm Scone/Biscuit which is cut in half and it has strawberry jam and cream added. As in Cornwall jam/jelly is added to the scone/biscuit first and the cream placed on top of the jam. In Devon however, cream is placed on the scone/biscuit first with jam/jelly on top.

  • Plymouth Stonehouse 2

    Part 2 of my Stonehouse walk is a tale of Bully Beef and Biscuits washed down with Rum. The chief items of foreign supplies are, fresh beef, £11,265 16s.; biscuit, £7,750 5s. 3d.; salt pork At this time biscuit took the place of bread and we will find out a lot more about the biscuits in my Incidentally, the peas mentioned in the list were dried peas, dried in the same biscuit drying facility change, and the majority of the younger present-day naval men have probably never had salt meat and biscuits

  • Odds and Sods September 2024

    vintagey sort of month as it turned out, with vintage trains, vintage buses, vintage cars, vintage biscuits Here is a vintage biscuit assortment, some of which appear in my biscuit history posts here.

  • Battenburg

    Biscuits - Nice Biscuits - Malted Milk Biscuits - Fig Rolls Cake - Battenburg

  • Odds and Sods August 2023

    When he got home my grandmother discovered handsfull of chocolate finger biscuits stuffed in his pockets proof of great British culinary art were needed, I next stumbled upon a marble memorial to the Ship's Biscuit The Marines are still on guard but no longer eating ship's biscuits.

  • Roxanne, You Don't Have to Put on the Red Light

    squashed between two somethings that are wheat based, I'm not fussy, bap, baguette, panini, chapati, nan, biscuit

  • Pteris nipponica

    October 2020 in lockdown times I was looking for things to photograph that were close to home, hence the biscuit

  • Odds and Sods November 2021 Part 1

    house with a chimney, with one engine to the north and the other to the south (the engines also powered biscuit-making The biscuits were dried on the upper floors of the side ranges; there was also a drying kiln above the Although fully equipped as a biscuit and bread factory when opened in 1834, it was initially given only

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