The more I write the more I find things to write on. For some it may seem just an idle rant but for me it's just like opening that well trodden path of memory which can now be visited only in the memories.
As I was thinking of walnut date chocolate and the badam biscuits of Diwali , I thought of those non Diwali stuff that I loved as a child.
As a child I loved biscuits of any types maybe that's the reason now I am not very fond of them and can stay without them for a real long time...
We always had two types of biscuits available at our place. Marie biscuits which at that time came in butter paper type cover and Monaco or salty biscuits. Marie tasted good with tea but tea tastes bitter after them while Monaco made tea a delectable salty sweet mixture. Of course frequently tea turned into a gloopy porridge of half wet soggy biscuits that found their way at the bottom of the cup. I liked them too and ate it with a spoon after tea got over. A few times krack jack made an appearance and rarely parle-G ( I hated the overly sweet glucose biscuits then). But most of the same it was just 2 M n Ms.
Aai brought few other a bit pricey biscuits sometimes like bourbon and other cream biscuits. Mostly they were bourbon, jelly biscuits (pretty cousin of jim jams) and at times champion pineapple cream, which were round biscuits with hole in between which showed yellow ofineapple cream. I remember in one of our first school day after summer vacation , for break, aai had packed my tiffin with 4 cream biscuits. A bourbon, an elaichi cream square biscuit , a pineapple cream biscuit and a jelly biscuit. I was so happy then. Such big happiness in a small treat. Leaving these incidents, the cream biscuits were usually jelly cream or Bourbon biscuits. But.. The but is funny here is since my good ol' sis used to stealthily lick the cream off the biscuits and leave them as innocent as they were before in the container. Any amount of scolding from aai didn't help. But as fate would have, her son shares the same trait now. I would get irritated then but that's it..
Another non cream but pricier biscuits which came in cardboard box and not butter paper were top biscuits which were bigger then and not current small versions, less buttery but same lovely taste and another were 'embassy cream'. These I had for the first time at my mother's colleague's place when I had tagged along with her for tea there. I found them pretty. The biscuits were bordering tastelessness. A bit salty, more on sweeter side but Marie can be considered sweeter than them. Between two small rectangular layers of off white lightly baked) biscuits was a layer of light pink cream. I liked the dainty texture of the biscuits and could convince aai to get them once or twice more. I so much wish I could take their photo like we can take easily now as they are extinct now.
Another tastier snack was a packet of cheeselings. I loved the way you could put a single one on our tongue and 'phat' it would break. It was a real tasty, greasy and cheesy snack.
Then there were good day biscuits of which I made porridge of water and biscuit powder and ate. And the tasty little hearts with hard sugar top on Monaco biscuits.
Along with these, there were smallies as I would like to call them. Small and thin square or hexagonal jeera biscuits or crackers as we call them now. The belly button biscuits with or without garish pink , green, white and yellow icing. There were animal biscuits and those which tasted like parle- g cousins but were small, circular and had alphabets printed on them , also the ones that shaped like cashew nuts.
All these and such biscuits evoke memories in mind. I still laugh at the way I used to eat cream biscuits, the edges first and cream last.. With biscuit. Or edges first and sugar crystal crunchy red jelly part last. No licking business for me ;)
As I was thinking of walnut date chocolate and the badam biscuits of Diwali , I thought of those non Diwali stuff that I loved as a child.
As a child I loved biscuits of any types maybe that's the reason now I am not very fond of them and can stay without them for a real long time...
We always had two types of biscuits available at our place. Marie biscuits which at that time came in butter paper type cover and Monaco or salty biscuits. Marie tasted good with tea but tea tastes bitter after them while Monaco made tea a delectable salty sweet mixture. Of course frequently tea turned into a gloopy porridge of half wet soggy biscuits that found their way at the bottom of the cup. I liked them too and ate it with a spoon after tea got over. A few times krack jack made an appearance and rarely parle-G ( I hated the overly sweet glucose biscuits then). But most of the same it was just 2 M n Ms.
Aai brought few other a bit pricey biscuits sometimes like bourbon and other cream biscuits. Mostly they were bourbon, jelly biscuits (pretty cousin of jim jams) and at times champion pineapple cream, which were round biscuits with hole in between which showed yellow ofineapple cream. I remember in one of our first school day after summer vacation , for break, aai had packed my tiffin with 4 cream biscuits. A bourbon, an elaichi cream square biscuit , a pineapple cream biscuit and a jelly biscuit. I was so happy then. Such big happiness in a small treat. Leaving these incidents, the cream biscuits were usually jelly cream or Bourbon biscuits. But.. The but is funny here is since my good ol' sis used to stealthily lick the cream off the biscuits and leave them as innocent as they were before in the container. Any amount of scolding from aai didn't help. But as fate would have, her son shares the same trait now. I would get irritated then but that's it..
Another non cream but pricier biscuits which came in cardboard box and not butter paper were top biscuits which were bigger then and not current small versions, less buttery but same lovely taste and another were 'embassy cream'. These I had for the first time at my mother's colleague's place when I had tagged along with her for tea there. I found them pretty. The biscuits were bordering tastelessness. A bit salty, more on sweeter side but Marie can be considered sweeter than them. Between two small rectangular layers of off white lightly baked) biscuits was a layer of light pink cream. I liked the dainty texture of the biscuits and could convince aai to get them once or twice more. I so much wish I could take their photo like we can take easily now as they are extinct now.
Another tastier snack was a packet of cheeselings. I loved the way you could put a single one on our tongue and 'phat' it would break. It was a real tasty, greasy and cheesy snack.
Then there were good day biscuits of which I made porridge of water and biscuit powder and ate. And the tasty little hearts with hard sugar top on Monaco biscuits.
Along with these, there were smallies as I would like to call them. Small and thin square or hexagonal jeera biscuits or crackers as we call them now. The belly button biscuits with or without garish pink , green, white and yellow icing. There were animal biscuits and those which tasted like parle- g cousins but were small, circular and had alphabets printed on them , also the ones that shaped like cashew nuts.
All these and such biscuits evoke memories in mind. I still laugh at the way I used to eat cream biscuits, the edges first and cream last.. With biscuit. Or edges first and sugar crystal crunchy red jelly part last. No licking business for me ;)
