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Re: Graham Crackers....Where can I get them?
« Reply #15 on: September 28, 2011, 10:53:14 AM »
I have made Nainamo bars with graham cracker crumbs, and know what, they were terrible!! I much prefer them with digestive crumbs, and like a pp said, I actually have found that I prefer the digestive crumbs!! Graham Crackers seem a bit weedy to me now that I have gotten used to digestives!


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Re: Graham Crackers....Where can I get them?
« Reply #16 on: September 28, 2011, 02:45:35 PM »
No, I can't be doing with any digestives - I just don't like them!  The plain ones - the texture calls to mind what might happen if you took a small pile of sawdust, stuck it together with some kind of binding agent, and pressed it into a patty.  Very occasionally, I might eat a chocolate one (and it's only ever one) - which only serves to remind me how much I don't like them & shouldn't have wasted those calories.  Whereas I could sit and eat a whole box of graham crackers in one go if I let myself!  Good thing (for my waistline) they're not readily available here.  :P

Funny thing is that when I was living in the US - I probably hadn't eaten a graham cracker for years & years & years, nor even thought of them.  Then I moved here & it's one of the few food things I really missed.  Eating them takes me right back to childhood - camping in the Colorado mountains with my family, or on a Girl Scout camping trip (S'Mores).

Nanaimos - I have to bow to the Canadian expertise (cough - graham crackers) on that one, as it's their traditional treat!  Terrible is not a word I would use to describe my mate's Nanaimos & she's been making them a long time (and hopefully will continue to do so - for me).  We had a long & important conversation this summer at a picnic about preserving the cultural authenticity of baked goods - the Leeds baked goods posse are purists!  ;D
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Re: Graham Crackers....Where can I get them?
« Reply #17 on: September 28, 2011, 04:28:40 PM »
I made a key lime pie once with digestives.  Maybe it was partially due to the fact that they were mixed up with a heck of a lot of melted butter, but holy cow was it good!
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Re: Graham Crackers....Where can I get them?
« Reply #18 on: September 28, 2011, 05:49:38 PM »
I've made nanaimo bars with digestives too, and they were fine.

They don't taste exactly the same as graham crackers, but I really prefer them. Graham crackers seem a little bland to me after eating digestives, so for baking I think digestives win every time!
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Re: Graham Crackers....Where can I get them?
« Reply #19 on: September 28, 2011, 06:39:38 PM »
I made a key lime pie once with digestives. 

Forget graham crackers!  Where oh where did you find key limes in the UK?


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Re: Graham Crackers....Where can I get them?
« Reply #20 on: September 28, 2011, 07:40:00 PM »
Really?  I find digestives have very little flavour compared to a good graham. 


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Re: Graham Crackers....Where can I get them?
« Reply #21 on: September 28, 2011, 07:50:27 PM »
Forget graham crackers!  Where oh where did you find key limes in the UK?

Haha this is also a good question! ;)
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Re: Graham Crackers....Where can I get them?
« Reply #22 on: September 28, 2011, 08:31:12 PM »
Really?  I find digestives have very little flavour compared to a good graham. 

This!  :)
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Re: Graham Crackers....Where can I get them?
« Reply #23 on: September 29, 2011, 06:49:26 AM »
Forget graham crackers!  Where oh where did you find key limes in the UK?

Well, perhaps they weren't key limes, just whatever limes I happened find in the shop that day.  So technically it probably wasn't a Key Lime Pie but the sentiment was the same!  :)

This was the recipe, and it was goooooooood!!  :D
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