🇬🇧 Digestive Biscuits that taste like McVities | Make at home & try the Tea Dunk test!
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2024
- Digestive Biscuit Recipe
This recipe is based around the much known and loved McVitie’s Digestive Biscuits. Also known as sweet meal biscuits, they are one of the most widely consumed biscuits in Britain…some 80 million packets are sold each year! They were originally developed to alleviate indigestion, due to the high fiber from the whole wheat and the sodium bicarbonate content, hence the name “digestive”. They have over the years become known for being a dunk-worthy biscuit with British tea drinkers (although the debate around the idea of dunking biscuits in public continues!)
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups white whole wheat flour
¾ cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup butter, cold and cubed
¼ cup cold milk
DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Into a mixing bowl add flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder. Whisk to combine.
3. Add butter and rub into the dry ingredients until the mix resembles breadcrumbs.
4. Add the milk, and using your fingertips, work the mix together until a dough is formed. (Tip: if the dough is too hard or too dry, add a little more milk, one teaspoon at a time. If it is too sticky, add a little more flour, one teaspoon at a time.)
5. Knead the dough gently for about a minute.
6. Transfer the dough onto a floured surface, and begin to roll out the dough. Ensure that the rolling pin is sufficiently floured too. Roll the dough to a thickness of between ¼ - ⅛ inch thickness. Use a cookie cutter with a diameter of 2-2½ to cut out the biscuit rounds. Prick holes into the biscuits - these will prevent the biscuits from rising during baking. Lay the rounds onto the baking sheets and place in the preheated oven to bake for 15-20 minutes. The biscuits are ready when they are a pale golden color.
7. Once baked, remove from the oven and leave to cool on the baking sheet.
NOTE: These biscuits can be stored in a cool, airtight container for up to 5-7 days.
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Very nice 🍪 biscuit. 💞 Thank you.
☕ Can hardly wait to try.
Loved watching this video, thank you very much. I especially liked the tea dunking challenge - which is after all the ultimate test of biscuit quality for us Brits.
Glad you enjoyed watching. And yes, dunking in tea is an essential test of quality!😄
Thanks for sharing. I'll give it a go.
I baked this recipe and they disappeared very quickly. They entire family asked for more. Thanks again for this recipe. 💕
That's great to hear! Thanks for watching😊
I did make your digestive biscuits this weekend. And they are lovely. Just the perfect little something to go along with your cuppa. Thank you.
Glad to hear you enjoyed them! Thanks for watching and commenting😘
When I spent a study month in London in '77 with a college group we lived on McVittie's and pint bottles of milk from a corner store near our hotel!!
Sounds like happy memories😊
delightful
Look great!
I am going to make these and I will let you know what I think about them. I’m sure I will like them.
Please do let me know😊
Thank you 💜
I'm so happy to have this recipe. We have to bake them twice, because I left them to cool down and went to sleep. In the morning they were soggy, so I just put them in the preheat owen for few minutes. Real biscuits 😊 I been buying them for like 2,5 dolars here in Czech.... Not anymore. Thank you for a recipe
So glad to hear you are enjoying this recipe! Thank you for watching and supporting😊❤️
Great recipe. I like the look of yours the most. If I had both in front of me, I'd choose yours x
Thank you!😊
😊 x
I made this but used maple syrup instead of sugar, and used less than 3/4 cup.
thank you very much for this recipe, it taste like store bought biscuit but not american store bought, I will subscribe, you deserve it, I wanna use these biscuits for chocolate fridge cake, we used to make it when I was child but I didn't know its england queen's favorite cake, we added more stuff to cake which are walnuts and eggs, I dont add sugar to cake, I make it using date paste which is healthy and that's why I made these biscuits too because I don't want to consume refined sugar which is in store bought biscuits.
Date paste is a great sweetener, I agree 👍🏼
@@SususCookbook yes it is, one time I made the fridge cake with date paste and I didn't see any taste difference compare to sugar made cake, so that's good.
so in original McVitie's rich tea biscuits ingredients there is barley malt extract so how much I have to add Batley malt extract to this recipe?
And is there really gonna be taste difference in biscuits?
What brand malt extract will you recommend? I want it to be pure.
Thanks a lot.
@godschild5587 In the food manufacturing industry, malt extract is used to promote good texture and color. My recipe is based around the McVities Digestive biscuits, not their Rich Tea biscuits so I do not use it in my recipe. Hope this helps:)
Substituted refined ,solidified coconut oil in lieu of butter and/or palm oil(which is in the original McVites)and they just ain't right and too hard. I spread a tiny bit of butter on one of them and BINGO. With that I'm doing it in accord to how Susu does it and use butter next try. They do,however, dunk nicely.
Note: the actual reason I forwent butter wasc because the last recipe I tried called for a mixture of grain flours, oat for one, and butter and they were way off and butter flavor was too pronounced.
Luv her voice and cadence...it's so relaxing like ASMR
Yummy ❤
Thanks for watching 😊
Do u have a recipe for mcvities crispy slices please?
I don't have a recipe for them but I may look into that for the future. Thanks for watching😊
I’ve read the ingredients on the packet and it says malt extract 🤔
Macvite biscuits have a special flavor and they may be adding some special secret ingredient. What could that be ?
I'd love to know too😄
What flour would you recommend we use in the UK as white whole wheat isn't available?
You can substitute white wheat flour with whole wheat flour, cup for cup. While both are whole grain, white wheat is a lighter-colored grain, which gives a milder flavor and lighter color for baked goods than those baked with red whole wheat flour. But for this recipe, whole wheat flour will work without compromising on taste or texture. Hope this helps😊
Thank you for the recipe, unfortunately americans used to extremely sweet stuff, when I came to usa and realized that Americans eat a lot more sweeter than my country, I dont like American sweet taste, it's too sweet and it's unpleasant.
How was the sweetness of your biscuit compare to store bought biscuit?
I like the comparison you did which is important.
Overall americans are mostly opposite of the world, there are many things which americans do it differently than most of the world, americans dont call this biscuit, they have their own biscuit. Very sad.
My recipe is based on McVities Digestive biscuits, which are a British brand. They are certainly suited to those with a less sweeter palette. Thanks for watching 😊
What is it in grams and ml?
In grams and ml:
250g white whole wheat flour
85g powdered sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
115g butter
55 - 60ml milk
Isn't 1 cup 250g? @@SususCookbook
@tehreem2187 1 cup of flour converts to 125g, so yes, you are correct. For 2 cups in this recipe it would be 250g. Thanks!
Mcvities dont use cold butter.
Yes, they use palm oil. This is my own homemade take on the McVities recipe, and I am happier with butter:)
All food in America is made sweeter. I wonder why. 🤔 Why do they call it digestives?
I agree, Americans generally have a sweeter pallette. It is interesting how the digestive biscuits were originally marketed - you may enjoy this information: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestive_biscuit
@@SususCookbook thank you I will read this.
I liked them. Didn’t know what white wholemeal flour was so used 50/50 white flour and wholemeal. I live in Cairo so our digestives are not as nice as English ones. I grew up on digestives made with butter not palm oil( marg etc) like today, so these are nicer.
Glad you liked these. I agree the butter makes all the difference. Thanks for watching😊