Heston's Biscuits (Self-bake frozen cookie dough)
Heston's Biscuits (Self-bake frozen cookie dough)
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amir_j

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3,579 posts

229 months

Thursday 25th August 2011
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Anyone tried these?

Read in the papers Waitrose are selling under their Heston range 3 flavours of frozen cookie dough you cook yourself which make around 15 cookies.

£3.79 a pack so won't be a regular but still fancy a go (or more accurately, asking wife to biggrin)

Mr Gearchange

5,892 posts

234 months

Friday 26th August 2011
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15 cookies for 3.80 which you have to make yourself?

To quote Stephen Fry "No rope was ropier and no money monier"

saxomad

34 posts

180 months

Friday 26th August 2011
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i would just buy some pre done?

amir_j

Original Poster:

3,579 posts

229 months

Friday 26th August 2011
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cooking as we speak- and in Ph fashion its a Panasonic combi oven hehe

Got them as its Heston- one of the worlds greatest chefs so interested. Bought Chocolate & Caraway flavour.

10 mins to go!


Mobile Chicane

21,974 posts

240 months

Friday 26th August 2011
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Dear Lord. rolleyes

You could make 30 of the following for less than £2:

Butter stem ginger biscuits

4 oz (approx 100 g) butter
2 tablespoons (2 x 15 ml spoons) golden syrup
1 oz (approx 25 g) sugar
2 oz (approx 50 g) stem ginger
6 oz (approx 150 g) self-raising flour
1 teaspoon (1 x 5 ml spoon) ground ginger


Chop the stem ginger into small pieces (about half the size of a raisin, or whatever size you prefer).

Put the butter, syrup and sugar in a saucepan and heat gently until the butter has melted and the sugar dissolved. Remove from the heat and allow to cool to room temperature.

Stir in the flour, ground ginger and chopped stem ginger. Mix thoroughly. It should form a soft dough that leaves the sides of the pan clean.

Put teaspoonfuls of the mixture onto a greased baking tray, spaced about 1 inch (approx 2-3 cm) apart to allow room for the biscuits to spread as they cook.

Bake at about 180 C (approx 375 F) for about 15 minutes until the biscuits are golden brown and set. Remove from the tray and cool on a wire rack.

Store in an airtight tin. If they get the chance, they keep for up to 2 weeks.

FaineantFreddy

8,577 posts

265 months

Friday 26th August 2011
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amir_j said:
cooking as we speak- and in Ph fashion its a Panasonic combi oven hehe

Got them as its Heston- one of the worlds greatest chefs so interested. Bought Chocolate & Caraway flavour.

10 mins to go!

They'll be a bit overdone by now...

H_Kan

4,942 posts

227 months

Saturday 27th August 2011
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Mobile Chicane said:
Dear Lord. rolleyes

You could make 30 of the following for less than £2:

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You could apply that logic to most things though... £4 isn't exactly going to break the bank.

amir_j

Original Poster:

3,579 posts

229 months

Saturday 27th August 2011
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Morning all,

Biscuits were very nice, did come out slightly overdone which was a shame. Should have gone for another flavour though as Caraway which I hadn't heard of is just like normal Cumin seeds or to use the indian term Jeera, and
"Jeera biscuits' have been a Asian staple for years so the taste was too familiar to judge.

Like the concept though and wife really liked them so good tip if you want to impress a girl with minimum effort.

I also got Hestons 'Chocolate and Rosemary' icecream day before which turned out to be an...erm..acquired taste, We both hated and wife took the barely eaten pot into work where out of around 5 colleagues all disliked bar one who loved it.

calibrax

4,788 posts

239 months

Saturday 27th August 2011
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I can almost hear that phone call...

Waitrose : "Hi there Heston, this is Waitrose, we'd like your help."

Heston : "How much will you pay me, and what do I have to do?"

Waitrose : "We'll pay you £1m plus a royalty, and you just have to suggest some ideas. We'll make all the food, and use your name to sell it."

Heston : "No problem. Send me a check and I'll send you a list of dubious combinations, like Chocolate and Rosemary."

Waitrose : "Excellent."

thatone1967

4,246 posts

219 months

Wednesday 14th September 2011
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the mrs and I have become addicted to these, she likes the almond one, but I prefer the chocolate and carraway seeds!

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JaybirdUK

1,867 posts

195 months

Wednesday 14th September 2011
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Just seen they are flogging mustard icecream, wtf?!

http://www.waitrose.presscentre.com/Press-Releases...