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Annie ANZAC biscuit Review	Hi, Nicey.  Regarding ANZAC biscuits, I was very interested to see these available commercially.  I came across home-made Anzacs while staying with friends who had lived and worked in Nepal with an Aid organisation.  They were part of an ex-pat community with Americans, Aussies, Dutch, Kiwis, etc, so until now I didn't know where the recipe came from.  (Sounds like it was Down-Under!)  The secret of these yummy biscuits is the use of BICARB in the bikkie-dough.  They also have a good ratio of oats to flour, which for me makes the perfect biscuit.   Love the site - I'm visiting daily now. All best wishes, Annie
Helen Rees	Dear Nicey, Interesting to read Emma's note from Tajikstan because when I mentioned Tea Money to my (Welsh) husband the other day he said "Yes, and tea leaves floating in your tea means a visitor to the door." Could it be that when Tea came to Britain first from Asia the customs came with it?
James E. Petts	Dear Sir,   what is the official NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown.com line on gingerbread men? Cake, biscuit or mere confection?   yours most humbly,   James E. Petts
	Nicey replies: Regarding Gingerbread men, Gingerbread is a cake, despite wanting to be some kind of bread. By association this makes gingerbread men cakes. Certainly the ones baked locally are more cake than biscuit. However I do think that you would really need to make a case by case judgement as recipes vary so much.
Janet Ames	Back in the days when i was a small girl tea came loose in quarter pound packets and not in little bags. Sometimes a rolled tea-leaf would float to the surface in the cup and bob about like a small twig.The person whose cup is was would take a tea-spoon and fish out the tea-leaf.Place it on the top of a chenched fist and hit it smartly with the other fist, also rolled. Chanting "Monday - pause- "Tuesday" -pause and so on until the tea-leaf fell off. The floating leaf meant a letter was on its way and the rest of the ritual was to announce on which day it would arrive.The underlying message was that the promised letter meant goods news or money and never merely the gas bill.
Tomsk	Chris Capon talked about "She also refuses to drink the last few sips of tea insisting she's finished when there is still some left in the bottom of the cup." and many others spoke of family customs relating to tea Well, my mother-out-law (yes, the mother of my unmarried partner) coined a word for the unpleasant sensation of drinking the last dregs of a cuppa only to find that the strainer hasn't done its job. The day this happened, she drank down the dregs and immediately made a pinched face and said "nimnimnimnim" So for ever after, the dregs in the bottom of a cuppa are nim-nims. Anyone else have local or family words associated with a nice cup of tea (or even an unpleasant one - don't get me started on UHT milk...) cheerio Tomsk
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