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THIS is a modern version of a biscuit I
remember from the austere post war days, and I wondered if anyone
out there recalled it, too.
In fact, the one I remember
was (a) much thinner and (b) had less chocolate on it. But the basic
idea was the same.
Very late in the 1940s or
early in the 1950s, a Nantwich shop had on sale some confectionery
which comprised two wafer biscuits as used for ice cream with a
white centre and two opposite corners dipped in dark chocolate
forming triangles. The centre would not have been cream or even
butter cream so I am guessing that it was some kind of very soft
nougat as in the example above.
That - called a
Nougat Wafer, obviously - is intended for use as a pair with two
blobs of ice cream in between. But the old style one was the
cake/biscuit in its entirety.
I don't recall it being on
sale for very long so it either wasn't popular or it was for a
special occasion such as the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth the
Second.
I have already asked
Chatwin's, the Nantwich bakers, about it and they don't recall it,
so I think it must have been produced by the then rival bakery,
Lloyds.
I am not saying it was a
Nantwich product - indeed, it may well have come from a nationwide
recipe book of interesting things to make with items available
during the rationing of goods after the war.
If you know the biscuit I
am taking about, I would love to hear from you. E-mail me at
dabber@dabbersnantwich.me.uk. Thank you.
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