Ginger delights

Advantages: Tasty and luxurious
Disadvantages: expensive but indulgent

...I really like a cup of coffee and a biscuit when I?m watching the soaps, I?m a creature of habit really and I like all kinds of biscuits, especially the luxurious ones and Walkers Stem Ginger Shortbread are very indulgent. This week for my treat I bought a box of these special biscuits to indulge my biscuit habit. Although sometimes I buy the cheaper brands of biscuits its always nice to have some luxurious biscuits in the tin for when visitors come around, or for cuddling up on the sofa with the fire lit at night watching and relaxing in front of the television. I bought Walkers Stem Ginger Shortbread this time I was shopping and they cost me £2.25 for a 175g box of tasty treats. I know this is much more than a packet of Morrison?s own brand of shortbread, but these biscuits are well worth paying extra for as they the little...

Sunnysmiles 19.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Walkers Stem Ginger Shortbread

Crinkle Ginger biscuits ?

Advantages: Food
Disadvantages: coconut

...Tesco stem ginger crinkle biscuits. These biscuits don?t deliver the taste they promise - or at least they don?t if you sensitive to coconut flavour! Despite no mention in the biscuit?s name of any flavour but ginger, there is a very strong flavour of coconut. The ingredient list shows that desiccated coconut is the fourth most common ingredient (by percentage mass), stem ginger is the eighth commonest at a mere 4%. Another odd thing is the fact that despite listing coconut as an ingredient the packing claims, ?No Nuts?. I have less trouble understanding the claim that it is suitable for vegetarians; or the warnings about milk, wheat and gluten. To the biscuit eating experience: The rectangular biscuit looks to have come from the mould that is used for shortbread or slightly too fat Nice biscuits. They are golden coloured...

mumsymary 12.05.2009 · Read review
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John Bull chocolate stem ginger pieces

Advantages: Great for the after dinner to round off a meal
Disadvantages: a bit expensive.

...I purchased John Bull chocolate stem ginger pieces when I go on holiday to the east coast resorts each year as they are delicious stem ginger pieces coated in plain chocolate. * THE JOHN BULL CONFECTIONERS * The John Bull company is a homemade sweet and rock manufacturer based on Lancaster road in the outskirts of Bridlington in the UK. John Bulls sells rock, rum truffles, mint humbugs, homemade Yorkshire biscuits, chocolate ginger and many more home made sweets. John Bulls have shops in York, Scarborough, Bridlington and Filey. * THE PRODUCT * John Bull stem ginger chocolate pieces are made from the cooking and coating of pure stem ginger imported from Africa and other hot climate countries. The stem ginger is then cut into 1sq cm pieces and coated with plain chocolate to give the most delicious tasting warming bite which...

Jeser 18.03.2004 · Read review
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Review of John Bull Chocolate Ginger Pieces

Ainsleys glorified non tasting ginger nut

Advantages: Something to eat
Disadvantages: not tasty enough

.... They are about equivalent to a penguin thickness. So pack in hand, I made a cup of tea and sat down with biscuits and tea. I decided to ?dunk? the biscuit for research purposes only you understand. And the dunk was worthless, it was totally futile apart from the fact the chocolate melted. So they are certainly not a dunking biscuit. As for the taste, well they certainly lack in that department. They simply taste of plain chocolate; I could hardly taste the stem ginger at all. In fact if I hadn?t known it was in there I wouldn?t have guessed, and I love a nut ? as long as they are ginger of course! The thick dark chocolate gives way to a crumbly enough biscuit (providing you have the teeth to bite them of course ? not one for Deano I suspect). I then asked for the opinions of other family members, and all told me they couldn?t taste...

dabmim 11.11.2002 · Read review
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Review of Ainsley Harriot Stem ginger Chocolate coated biscuits

Chewy pieces in these biscuits

Advantages: really tasty
Disadvantages: none

...Thinking of Christmas and the New Year we shall probably be eating some Walkers shortbread biscuits. Although these biscuits are available all the year round somehow they seem to be traditional Christmas and New Year treats. The tins and packets patterned in a traditional red Scottish tartan I have eaten many styles of walker?s short bread biscuits the traditional round shortbread that is divided into segments, Small round thick shortbread biscuits, shortbread triangles. One I have sampled is the shortbread with stem ginger pieces. I shall be telling you about these ones now. Walker?s shortbread with stem ginger is a fantastic biscuit. The fairly large round shortbread biscuit quite thick has a few pieces of stem ginger baked in it. Bite into the crisp biscuit it is a lovely buttery shortbread flavor, not too crumbly...

mumsymary 21.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Walkers Stem Ginger Biscuits

Glorious Ginger

Advantages: Has culinary, medicinal, cosmetic uses
Disadvantages: Should be avoided by people with peptic ulcers

...a tropical species native to Asia. It was one of the first oriental spices to arrive in Europe, obtained by the Greeks and Romans from Arab traders. Although often called "ginger root", it is actually a rhizome (in layman terms, a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure). The etymology of the English word "ginger" can be traced back to the Sanskrit word shringavera, which means "shaped like a deer's antler". Ginger requires tropical conditions and fertile soil for optimum growth and is commercially grown in India, Jamaica, China, Nigeria and Australia. Forms of ginger and their uses: ********************************** Ginger is available in six different forms such as fresh, dried, pickled, preserved, crystallized / candied and powdered. Fresh ginger is a commonly used in Asian...

supreah 06.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Ginger

Rounde crinkley ginger biscuits

Advantages: tasty
Disadvantages: fattening

...discernable ginger flavour. They are made with crushed stem ginger. These biscuits are egg and milk free. There are 470 calories per 100g that's about 52 per biscuit also contain Wheat and gluten These are a satisfying biscuit a good flavour, a good size may be I will eat 2 but have no need for more in one sitting A packet of these biscuits will cost you 88p at Ocado. I think they are the same in Tesco's too . These biscuits are a good one if you like ginger then you will like these. Fox's is an old company founded in 1843 in Batley Yorkshire several generations after this Fox's are now part of the Northern dairies group. Fox's biscuits are a good brand I have always been satisfied after eating them...

mumsymary 25.01.2010 · Read review
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Review of Fox's Ginger Crinkles

Ginger and Other Healthy Herbs

Advantages: Anti-bacterial. Anti-nausea. Good for getting rid of indigestion
Disadvantages: Hot for some people.Not so widely available

...Chinese culinary arts are not only angled towards delighting the sense of taste - to the Chinese eating well is a very important part of life - but also in providing preventive measures against possible ailments and illnesses.Ginger(zingiber officinale),renowned as a anti-bacterial and anti-nausea herb,is one of the most popular herbs among the Chinese but there are others as well. Traditionally the Chinese have classified all foods by their innate properties: heaty, those which stimulates the system; cooling , those which soothes the system; and neutral , those herbs which neither stimulates nor soothes. This article focuses on the best known or most common herbs and ingredients used in Chinese cuisine and discusses some of their less well-known therapeutic values. Dried Longans, Lotus Seeds and Red Dates The Chinese believe...

ashford 15.10.2001 (25.10.2001) · Read review
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Review of Ginger

Idle Ginger

Advantages: Easy to use and store
Disadvantages: Slightly less aromatic than a fresh root

...since it's actually a horizontal stem which grows underground, so hence the little green shoots sometime seen of fresh green ginger): ginger is suitable for vegetarians, vegans and coeliacs. Frequently associated with Eastern medicine and herbal remedies, ginger is reported to be the most widely used spice in the world. Whilst not suggesting that the it's properties in aiding digestion by promoting secretion of additional enzymes in the stomach might enhance your cooking prowess; in general terms it is a beneficial constituent in food preparation for most people. The main volume ingredient is white wine vinegar (this contains some sulphur dioxide, so sulphites will be present as a concern for sulphite allergy sufferers); and the only other ingredient is ginger. Nutritional information as follows: Nutrients per 100g...

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Review of The English Provender Co Very Lazy Ginger

These are fine ginger cookies

Advantages: Taste fine
Disadvantages: calories

...I am rather partial to a ginger biscuit and bought some Tesco finest ginger cookies. These cookies come sealed inside a packet in a rectangular card box These biscuits are a good size they are circular and look good. They are a golden brown colour with a cracked appearance. Sniffing them they smell biscuity and lightly of ginger. Biting into a biscuit is not hard these are not a very hard biscuit they are fairly soft and when in your mouth break into crumbs. I am eating one now as I write this review and they taste lightly of ginger not overpowering. In each bite I get a soft piece of crystallised stem ginger This is pleasant, slightly chewy and does release a little more ginger flavour into my mouth. These biscuits are good and satisfying one or two biscuits will suffice toll supper time. If you have a wheat allergy...

mumsymary 18.01.2010 · Read review
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Review of Tesco finest ginger cookies