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Old 19-11-2008, 00:40
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Two questions:

1. Can you get Tiffin anymore?

2. Where did the phrase "Tea and Tiffin" come from?

Any help on this would be welcome. As a child I remember loving a Tiffin bar (showing my age here of course )
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Old 19-11-2008, 02:41
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I'm sure I've seen Tiffin slices in the bakery section of Sainsbury's quite recently.

I've never actually tried one, keep meaning to but caramel shortcake always catches my eye first!
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Old 19-11-2008, 08:34
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I love making Tiffin! You can buy it in the shops but much better to make your own, and you can select a better quality chocolate to put on top.

Tea and tiffin is fab, just not as fab as tea and a scone!
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Old 19-11-2008, 18:34
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http://www.rampantscotland.com/recip...ipe_tiffin.htm

ooh yeah, that sounds good, my mum used to make something similar but she called it Polish Crunch
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Old 19-11-2008, 20:08
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I used to love Cadbury's Dairy Milk Tiffin bars - haven't seen them for years.
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Old 20-11-2008, 00:14
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Two questions:

1. Can you get Tiffin anymore?

2. Where did the phrase "Tea and Tiffin" come from?

Any help on this would be welcome. As a child I remember loving a Tiffin bar (showing my age here of course )
Never heard of a tiffin bar. You can buy a tiffin box in Waitrose. Which is usually rice,curry,naan bread and a pudding or sweet meat.

Traditionally the wives would make their husband this light meal,then put each item into a tiffin box and give it to the tiffin wallah to deliver to their husbands later.

I guess that is where our lunchboxes came from.
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Old 20-11-2008, 02:17
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Never heard of a tiffin bar. You can buy a tiffin box in Waitrose. Which is usually rice,curry,naan bread and a pudding or sweet meat.

Traditionally the wives would make their husband this light meal,then put each item into a tiffin box and give it to the tiffin wallah to deliver to their husbands later.

I guess that is where our lunchboxes came from.
Oh dear, that's not the type of tiffin I was thinking of! I thought it was a chocolate-y cake-y thing!
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Old 20-11-2008, 07:53
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Oh dear, that's not the type of tiffin I was thinking of! I thought it was a chocolate-y cake-y thing!
seems your both right. ive found a recipe on "t' internet". never made it meself, but think i'll give it a go.hope this helps? xx

http://http://www.onesuffolk.co.uk/O...pes/tiffin.htm
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Old 20-11-2008, 07:57
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sorry.... ive tried opening this link myself to see it looks ok? but dont seem to wanna work. and im not clever enuf to work out why. sorry folks. good intentions meant xx
( if anyone can fix it please do soz xx)
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Old 20-11-2008, 14:32
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http://www.onesuffolk.co.uk/Older+Pe...pes/tiffin.htm

There you go. Too many http's!
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Old 20-11-2008, 15:38
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Found Cadbury's Tiffin bars on American and Irish "British Food" sites.
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Old 20-11-2008, 15:46
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I love Tiffin, I just make my own as I've never seen it sold in shops. I sometimes leave out the raisins and instead add slightly crushed maltesers and top with good quality white chocolate and it becomes maltesers cake which is very popular with my friends and family.
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Old 21-11-2008, 07:22
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oh yeah!! thank you. see i never noticed that, computers confuse me ha xx
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