Love them or hate them, Digestives have been around for 185 years for a reason.
While they’re not usually the most shouted about biscuits in the UK, according to aIt shouldn’t be a surprise really since the original recipe which is still used today was devised way back in 1892 according toBut, where did this name come from? It’s a plain name to describe plain biscuits but there has to be more to it, right?: “The biscuit draws its name from the main leavening agent used in manufacturing it – baking soda.
“In the past, sodium bicarbonate was used to ease with indigestion problems and so when the digestive biscuits were invented, they were deemed to have the same relieving property.”However, this logic was later refuted as after undergoing , sodium carbonate loses digestive healing properties but nevertheless, the name stuck around for all of these years.However, Biscuit People note: “The sodium carbonate used to manufacture the digestive biscuits may not be active in helping with
issues, but having been made from whole-wheat, the biscuits have some fair amount of fibre to aid in digestion.”While there are few treats as simple and satisfying as dunking a biscuit into your cup of tea, this was once extremely frowned upon.: “Victorians disapproved of public biscuit dipping, as they believed it should only be done in the privacy of one’s own home.”
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