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Tea and Tiffin anyone?
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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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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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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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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I used to love Cadbury's Dairy Milk Tiffin bars - haven't seen them for years.
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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 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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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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Oh dear, that's not the type of tiffin I was thinking of! I thought it was a chocolate-y cake-y thing!
![]() http://http://www.onesuffolk.co.uk/O...pes/tiffin.htm |
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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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Found Cadbury's Tiffin bars on American and Irish "British Food" sites.
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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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