Jacob's Lemon Puff
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Jacob's Lemon Puff
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Lemon Not Puffs!
I was so so happy to find these as I'd tried to describe them to my children.
What an absolute disappointment!
Gone are the oh so flaky voluminous layers with the sticky yummy glaze. The biscuit is like underbaked cardboard, and where ARE the puffy layers?,?
Gone is the tangy lemon, to be replaced by a vile sickly dried out filling.
As for the shape - why do manufacturers thing it's ok to toy with that?
The price is horrendous! £1.80 in Asda. I wouldn't mind half as much, had they been the original recipe.
Overall a very very pale (literally) imitation of the fabulous much missed originals.
Shame on you Jacobs, for tinkering with what was already perfect!
My advice - keep your money in your pocket and buy something else.
From the mid-80s, the shells of Lemon Puff were made on the same production line as Cornish Wafer using a cut-sheet laminator that layered the dough prior to cutting the dough pieces and baking them to get the puff pastry. The shells were glazed then loaded into creamers were the sandwiches were formed, collated and wrapped. The lemon cream was made from chilled oil, scrapped off a refrigerator drum and left to stand to solidify, then mixed with sugar and lemon oil in batches.
Unfortunately, the cream making equipment was at the front end of the production line where the ingredients were stored and the creamers where at the opposite end of the line. The cream had to transported from the mixer in tubs through the factory to the creamers and shovelled from the tubs into the creamer’s hopper. A hygiene nightmare that has probably been solved by changing to the product made today..
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Where Have Those Rectangular Sticky Lemon Puffs Gone?
Was it Jacobs that used to make those lemon puffs which were rectangular and slightly sticky? I used always to have those with my morning coffee but cannot find them now. They were the best lemon biscuit out, why do manufacturers have to discontinue them?
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Lemon Puff???? Guff More Like!!!!
Wishing to have a nostalgic trip to a fantastic taste of childhood to share with my Grandchildren I have been searching for Lemon Puffs. Not any ol' Lemon Biscuit, but the delightful flakey, sugary glazed lemony puff treat of the past. Sadly that's how it'll remain, a memory of the past as the ones purchased are just VILE, so say us all. Why,why,why change something so perfect for something so awful. RIP Lemon Puffs you are sadly missed and I'll never buy the new ones again! Stick to Tunnocks Tea Cakes in future......Yum,yum.
Lemon Puffs
Bought some today never again they were rank and to expensive why are they so expensive
This review by goldxx is spot on having bought some from my local Aldi store I was appalled at the price ( £1.63 ) for 200g McVities but paid it because of my memories of what they were like to say that they tasted rank is an understatement!! They were disgusting and an insult to other biscuits being called a biscuit never again me thinks it may be the manufacture but have found the expensive price for any make is not worth the effort and cost to find out if they are not
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Dry And Awful
These biscuits used to be my favourites,but have not had any for a long time....Saw them on the shelf at the supermarket so decided to treat myself.....Oh Lawd,what a disappointment....They used to have a lovely crisp outer biscuit with a nice glaze but now the biscuit part is dry and stoggy...tastes like underbaked dough....the filling is too sweet and they are so awful I wont be buying them again....
do you know of any UK supermarket that stocks these biscuits?....
You should buy Maliban Lemon Puff from Sri Lanka - simply delicious
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What On Earth Have Jacobs Done
Awful , awful , awful what have you done Jacobs
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?lemon?puff
Not had a lemon puff biscuit for ages, looking forward to getting home from shopping and have a nice cup of tea and a beautiful lemon puff. What a disappointment! Why do these so-called maker of biscuits change the recipe of good biscuits. Needless to say I won't be buying them again!!
Back To Oblong And Shiny, Please.
I love anything with a 'lemony' taste and when I found these were still around, bought some, BUT WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT, very dry, so I ended up splitting them and enjoying the filling on its own and 'dunking' the rest! As I paid £1.79p for them, I thought won't be buying them again. I now know why they were on offer at £1 the following week - nobody enjoyed them the same, but I gave them another try, won't be bothering again! Even 'dunked' the biscuit was still dry as you started to chew, why?
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Horrible
Bring back the original lemon puffs. This version is disgusting. What were the manufacturers thinking? The original was exactly that, completely different from the lemon creams from other manufacturers. If it's not broken - don't fix it!
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Lemon Puffs
Lemon puffs it's in the word, what's happened to them. The lemon taste is there but the pastry should be puffy and crunchy and the shapes not right either so disappointed .
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