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For a few months I have been visiting an old man in a nursing home; I was always greeted with a warm smile. Thomas was a Scot long settled in the South of England, so we talked of the Glasgow he remembered in the 1950s.
Thomas liked Tunnock's Wafers, so a supply was the obvious gift. Sadly, Thomas died a week before Christmas.
A surprise birthday cake for a friend.. chocolate ganache finishing bottom tier with gold leaf covering the top tier, featuring printed wafer paper roses in full bloom.
I have to say that as a child I did rather like "Blue Riband" biscuits! They were quite a treat when we lived in Scotland and I do recall they were larger than the wafer biscuits now available and that are still branded as "Blue Riband"! They were produced by the Glasgow based biscuit makers of Gray Dunn who had introduced them in 1936 and they soon became one of the most popular biscuits of their type in the national market.
Gray Dunn were formed in 1853 and, in later years, I've seen two versions of their history that I can't quite unpick. Some sources note a takeover by the Glasgow bakers of Bilslands Brothers but the company was also associated with Rowntree's at some point and appears to have fallen into the maw of Nestle, the company who apparently still produce the biscuits now in Poland, the Glasgow plant having been closed many years ago.
unterwegs in der Oberstadt von Neunkirchen
- Langenstrichstraße
> Cennet Markt / Warenpräsentation "Sweet Plus" (Happy Choice)
It's a Japanese sweet usually made of azuki bean jam filling sandwiched between two thin crisp wafers made from mochi.
Digger doesn't know that you're supposed to dunk the cookies in milk - not dunk your head in the box!! I knew when he was checking out this box, that he would get stuck in there, so I had the camera ready!
Wafer tube ice cream, a truly unique take on the ice cream cone, is a fun way to cool off on these hot summer days. With a cool soft serve ice cream carefully injected into the tube, have fun holding it as you nibble your way down the delicious wafer. One will find various stands serving this special treat throughout the streets of Dongdaemun. Take a break from your shopping in the popular Dongdaemun district and grab one of these to cool off and enjoy the nearby newly built Dongdaemun Design Plaza.
How to get here:
Take the subway to Dongdaemun History and Culture Park (lines 2,4,5). Go out exit 14 and walk straight. After several minutes, you will eventually run into a vendor on the street.
A Scottish delight is a Single Nugget Wafer consisting of Ice Cream with a chocolate wafer filled with mallow and a dash of raspberry sauce.
I also enjoyed their caramel wafers during my cycles.
"Thomas Tunnock Limited, commonly known as Tunnock's, is a family-owned bakery based in Uddingston, Scotland. It is headed by Boyd Tunnock, grandson of Thomas. In 2013 a joint report by Family Business United and Close Brothers Asset Management named it as the 20th oldest family firm in Scotland still in operation.
As of 2019, Tunnock’s has been the sponsor of the Scottish Challenge Cup in Scottish football.
The company was formed by Thomas Tunnock (b. 1865) as Tunnock's in 1890, when he purchased a baker's shop in Lorne Place, Uddingston. The company expanded in the 1950s, and it was at this time that the core products were introduced to the lines, when sugar and fat rationing meant that products with longer shelf-lives than cakes had to be produced.
Since 2005, Tunnock's has sponsored The Tour of Mull, an annual car rally held on the Isle of Mull.
In September 2010, Tunnock's workers in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, conducted two 24-hour strikes during contract negotiations. At main issue were salaries, with management having originally offered an increase of 1%, followed by a second offer of 2%. The dispute was resolved in October 2010 with agreement on a 2.5% increase backdated to the start of July 2010, followed by a 2.5% increase in July 2011.
In an April 2012 interview with The Herald, Boyd Tunnock described himself as a Unionist on the question of Scottish independence.
In the 2014 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Glasgow, the teacakes took centre stage as dancers dressed as teacakes danced around the main performers near the start of the show. Sales of Tunnock's tea cakes were 62% higher at Waitrose the day after the ceremony.
In November 2015, Tunnock's made a donation of £250,000 to an appeal for an independent lifeboat station at St Abbs.
In January 2016 Tunnock's faced a boycott campaign from Scots who supported an independent Scotland, due to mistaken allegations that they had removed the Scottish lion and other Scottish branding from their products. The branding of the packaging remains the same, but advertisements found in London promoted it as a British (rather than exclusively Scottish) product.
In July 2017, Tunnock's announced it would be branding their wafer creams sold in Japan, as "Made in Great Britain" Managing director Boyd Tunnock quoted: "You've got the Great British Bake Off and things like that these days. We could have said Scottish but you're then promoting Scotland. We're British."
The Tunnock's Teacake is a sweet food often served with a cup of tea or coffee. It was developed by Sir Boyd Tunnock in 1956. The product consists of a small round shortbread biscuit covered with a dome of Italian meringue, a whipped egg white concoction similar to marshmallow, although somewhat lighter in texture. This is then encased in a thin layer of milk or dark chocolate and wrapped in a red and silver foil paper for the more popular milk chocolate variety, with blue, black, and gold wrapping for the dark.
Retired RAF bomber pilot Tony Cunnane told of how Tunnock's Teacakes became a favourite ration snack of the V bomber nuclear deterrent flight crews based at RAF Gaydon, especially after discovering that they expanded at high altitude. This ended after one was left unwrapped and exploded on the instrument panel." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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Speed photography. One attempt with a photo burst of three photos was enough to capture this image. Taken with Canon EOS 600D, using 50mm f 1.8 lens.
Seen here are the fruits of the Wafer Ash, an aeromatic small tree or shrub. Sometimes called the hop tree because the seeds were once used in the brewing of beer. Provides food and shelter for birds and mammals, nectar for butterflies. It is the host plant for Eastern Tiger Swallowtail and Giant Swallowtail larvae .
"Product Description. Pink sandwich wafer with cream filling. The first Crawford's biscuits were baked by William Crawford in a small shop in Leith, Edinburgh, in 1813. Ever since then, the Crawford's name has been trusted for quality everyday biscuits, which are still made with the same skill and care at our bakeries" Crawfords
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I've always found wafers really pretty, so I bought a few scrap ones on ebay a few months ago. Today I finally got a picture that I like out of one of them, and as much as I tried using artificial light sources, just using the sun was the way to go.
Also, in my stupidity, I didn't realize this thing would heat up like crazy in direct sunlight!
Etymology
Wafer and waffle share common etymological roots. Wafre ("wafer") occurs in Middle English by 1377, adopted from Middle Low German wâfel, with the l changed to r. Modern Dutch wafel, French gaufre, and German Waffel, all meaning "waffle", share the same origin. The Dutch form, wafel, was adopted into modern American English as waffle in the 18th century.
History
Medieval origins
The modern waffle has its origins in the wafers—very light thin crisp cakes baked between wafer irons—of the Middle Ages.[1] Wafer irons consisted of two metal plates connected by a hinge, with each plate connected to an arm with a wooden handle. The iron was placed over a fire and flipped to cook both sides of the wafer. The irons were used to produce a variety of different flat, unleavened cakes, usually from a mixture of barley and oats, not the white flour used today.
In 14th-century England, wafers were sold by street vendors called waferers.[3] The modern waffle is a leavened form of wafer.
Medieval waffle law
In medieval Europe, vendors were permitted to sell their waffles outside of churches on saints' days and during other special religious celebrations.[citation needed] Competition at the churches eventually became very heated, and at times violent, so that King Charles IX of France imposed a regulation on waffle sales, requiring vendors to maintain a distance of at least deux toises (4 m/12 ft) from one another.
"Porkchop" the pet pig of the host of a recent hunt cannot resist the temptation of "Just a wafer thin mint" scavenged from a mother's purse and offered by this young rider as a reward for excellent manners. He really was very sociable and gentle.
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A treacle-wafer (Stroopwafel in Dutch) after 25 seconds of micro-wave oven heating. It had still a nice taste ;-)
Maybe it's a try-out for you at home ;-)
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Loll! Now this one hit a top #25 position on my explore!.
#24 on Friday, December 21, 2007.
Now it is my highest ranked explore photo! ;-)