A friend of mine sent me these two tins of biscuits for the celebrations. One I have opened and almost devoured The Ginger stem biscuits and one is yet to have the cello tape removed. I am prolonging the enjoyment as they are not just any old biscuits. After moving from South Korea to the UK and working as a teacher I have experienced a lot of tea and biscuits. The varieties that come in cellophane packets and get “dunked” in strong tea until they almost collapse. A ritual I initially found amusing and now I am a convert. There is something amusing and challenging in equal parts about a sufficiently soggy biscuit that doesn’t drop in the tea, left a moment too long.

I think that’s why my friend sent me these two gorgeous tins of biscuits from the world famous Fortums and Mason grocery store.

I have no idea what they cost, I will google this information now, wow £11.95 you only get about 12 biscuits in the tin, 200g so they do work out pretty expensive and when I looked to see if I can buy a refill pack for my gorgeous new biscuit tin, this is not available. Which is a shame as the biscuits are completely delicious. This is a mistake because as a completely new customer I would repurchase the expensive biscuits without the tin but would be unlikely to buy another tin for myself. I would maybe buy for a gift for someone else but this is less likely.

The biscuits are melt in your mouth, buttery, sweet, powerful ginger flavour which I absolutely love, the perfect present.

Here are the ingredients,

Flour (Wheat Flour (Gluten), Calcium, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Salted Butter (19%) (Milk, Salt), Stem Ginger (16%) (Ginger, Sugar), Sugar, Invert Sugar Syrup (Sugar Syrup, Cane Molasses), Rolled Oats (Gluten), Free Range Pasteurised Eggs, Ground Ginger, Raising Agent: Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate.

They are produced in an environment that handles : Tree Nuts, Soya & Sulphur Dioxide.

They also dunk very very well. I ca state with clarity after multiple experiments Fortnums and Mason Ginger Stems are a substantial biscuit that doesn’t collapse, a quality I like very much too.

I give this biscuit 4 stars out of 5. It would be 5 stars out of 5 if I could buy a refill for my beautiful tin. It seems wrong somehow to refill the tin with cheaper biscuits. It would be such a let down everytime you go to open it. And I don’t want to throw the empty tin away. Maybe I will find another use for it at school. For scissors or pencils.