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    "excerpt": "Jammie Dodgers Cherry Flavour Biscuits is the darkest of the heart-window shortcake sandwiches, a deep round jammy centre closer to a glace cherry than to fresh fruit.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this product it contains wheat (gluten) and sulphites. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. With no acidity to fight tea tannin this one takes a properly brewed four-minute mug where the tropical version cannot. One second is the dunking limit.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Storage notes and dunking guidance are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.",
    "content_text": "Jammie Dodgers Cherry Flavour Biscuits is the darkest of the fillings and the one small children go for first. Two rounds of soft shortcake, the heart cut out of the lid, and a centre that reads deeper and rounder than the raspberry original, with almost nothing sharp in it anywhere. Cherry is the flavour that sits closest to confectionery, and that is either the reason to buy it or the reason not to, depending on who is eating. The Taste Profile\n \nCherry centre: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Deep, round and jammy, closer to a glace cherry than to fresh fruit, with none of the acidity that gives raspberry its edge.\n \nShortcake rounds: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Sandy and soft, exactly as they are across the range. Nothing has been changed except the middle.\n \nSweetness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf (5/5) The highest of the three. With no sharpness to break it up, the sugar runs the length of the bite.\n \nSnap: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb\u25cb (2/5) Low, as with every filled shortcake. It gives rather than cracks, and it is not a dunking biscuit.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.7 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind The Pack\nCherry occupies a particular place in British baking that has very little to do with fresh cherries. It is the flavour of a bakewell tart, a glace cherry in a fruit cake, a cherry bakewell in a bakery window: sweet, deep, slightly almondy by association rather than by ingredient, and always more confectionery than fruit. A cherry-filled biscuit lands in that tradition rather than in the fresh-fruit one, which is why it reads as a treat where the raspberry version reads as an everyday biscuit. The practical consequence of having no acidity is that this is the most robust of the three fillings when it comes to pairing. Acidity is what fights tea tannin, and there is none here, so a very strong mug that would flatten the tropical version simply sits alongside this one. It is the Dodger for people who brew properly. The ingredient declaration for the filling, along with the nutrition panel and the allergen statement, is printed on the current UK pack. The tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description.\nPackaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. Our Commitment To The Planet\n The pack that arrives is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe for another market. The filling holds moisture, so an opened pack stays worth eating for several days rather than going stale overnight the way a thin crisp biscuit does. \n How Does Jammie Dodgers Cherry Flavour Biscuits, 140g Compare to:\n Jammie Dodgers Raspberry Flavour Biscuits, 140g: the original and the more balanced of the two. Raspberry has a faint edge to it that cherry does not, which makes it the better biscuit for an adult and the less exciting one for a child. Jammie Dodgers Mango & Passionfruit Flavour Biscuits, 140g: the opposite end of the range. Real acidity from the passionfruit, livelier on its own and considerably harder to pair with a strong cup of tea. \n Ideal Brewing Conditions\nBrew this one strong. A sweet filling with no acidity in it needs tannin rather than delicacy, and unlike the tropical version there is nothing in the biscuit that a well-made cup can spoil. The mistake here is the opposite of the usual one: a weak, milky, sweetened mug leaves the cherry with nothing to push against, and the second biscuit tastes flat because the first one has coated the palate. The Strong Mug\n \nBrew: A standard black tea, one bag per 200ml at a full boil, four minutes. This is the Dodger that can take a properly brewed cup.\n \nMilk: Yes, but not much. Milk softens the tannin you are relying on here.\n \nDunk: One second at most. The window lets tea into the centre and the biscuit folds from the middle.\n \nCount: Two.\n\n The Bakewell Plate\n \nServe: With something almondy beside it, which is where cherry belongs in British baking whether or not there is any almond in the biscuit.\n \nWhy it works: The pairing is cultural as much as chemical, and it does something the biscuit cannot do alone: it turns a children's biscuit into an afternoon plate.\n \nTea: A plain black tea rather than anything flavoured. Earl Grey and cherry both want the same attention and neither gets it.\n \nResult:\n\n Brewing Notes For Jammie Dodgers Cherry Flavour Biscuits, 140g\n\nWater temperature: Full boil. Nothing here needs careful handling.\nMeasure: One bag per 200ml, two biscuits per person. \nSteep: Four minutes rather than three. This filling can take tannin and benefits from it.\nService: A little milk, no sugar at all.\nDunk: One second at most, and watch the window rather than the edge.\nIced version: Good. Cold suppresses sweetness, which this filling has plenty of.\nBest with: A properly brewed builder's mug, cold milk, or an almond cake beside it.\n Safety And Purity\n\nIngredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this product it contains wheat (gluten) and sulphites. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.\n\nStorage: Reseal the film or move the biscuits to a tin, cool and dry. Heat rather than air is the problem with a filled shortcake, and a warm cupboard makes the centre tacky.\nChild Safety: Keep the kettle and the hot mug out of reach of children while you brew.",
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                "content": "How is cherry different from raspberry?Deeper, rounder and sweeter, with no acidity at all. It reads closer to a glace cherry than to fresh fruit. Raspberry has a faint edge that breaks the sugar up; cherry does not, so the sweetness runs the whole length of the bite. What tea goes with it?Brew it strong, four minutes, with only a little milk. This is the Dodger that can take a properly made cup, because there is no acidity in the filling to fight the tannin. A weak sweet mug is the mistake here. Can I dunk it?One second at most. The heart cut in the lid lets hot tea straight into the centre, so the biscuit folds from the middle rather than softening at the edge. Eat it beside the mug. Why does cherry taste almondy?Association rather than ingredient. Cherry sits in the same corner of British baking as the bakewell tart and the glace cherry in a fruit cake, so the palate expects almond alongside it. How many biscuits are in the pack?The count is not given in the published pack listing, so we state none. The number is printed on the current UK pack. Which flavour should I buy?Raspberry for the better balance and the most familiar biscuit. Mango and passionfruit if you want something genuinely sharp, and are prepared to brew a lighter cup for it. How should I store it once open?Reseal the film or tip them into a tin, cool and dry. Heat rather than air is the problem with a filled shortcake: the centre holds moisture so they stale slowly, but a warm cupboard makes the filling tacky. Do they work in a pudding?Yes. Crumbled over rice pudding or a plain baked custard they soften into it rather than sitting on top, and the cherry reads as a jam swirl. Add them at the table rather than in the kitchen, so they keep some texture. What about iced tea?It suits this one particularly well. Cold suppresses sweetness, and of the three fillings this is the one with the most sweetness to suppress."
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                "content": "Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this product it contains wheat (gluten) and sulphites. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredients, as published for this product: Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Cherry Flavour Apple Jam (27%) (Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Apples (Sulphites), Sugar, Humectant (Glycerol), Flavourings, Acid (Citric Acid), Acidity Regulator (Sodium Citrates), Colour (Anthocyanins), Gelling Agent (Pectin)), Vegetable Oils (Sustainable Palm, Rapeseed), Sugar, Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Raising Agents (Ammonium Bicarbonate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Salt, Flavourings.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy435 kcalFat14gof which saturates6.0gCarbohydrate68gof which sugars30gFibre2.1gProtein5.4gSalt0.60gIngredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsShortcake roundsthe bodySandy and soft, unchanged across the range. They crumble at the edge rather than breaking cleanly, which makes the biscuit comfortable to eat and unreliable in a hot mug.Cherry flavour centrethe middle layerDeep, round and jammy, closer to a glace cherry than to fresh fruit, with no acidity. That absence is why the sweetness is continuous and why the biscuit can stand up to a strong cup of tea.The heart windowcut in the top roundLets steam out during the bake so the lid sits flat, and shows the dark filling before the biscuit is picked up. It is also the route hot tea takes into the centre.Pack weight140g The biscuit count is not given in the published pack listing and we state none.Pack: Jammie Dodgers Cherry Flavour Biscuits, 140g; a sealed film pack of filled shortcake sandwich biscuits. Best before the date printed on the pack, and best resealed or tinned once opened.Sourcing & blend. Jammie Dodgers Cherry Flavour Biscuits, 140g puts a cherry filling into a format older than any of its flavour variants, and cherry brings a whole tradition with it. In British baking cherry has very little to do with fresh cherries: it is the flavour of the bakewell tart, of the glace cherry in a fruit cake, of the cherry bakewell in a bakery window. Sweet, deep, almondy by association rather than by ingredient, and always more confectionery than fruit. A cherry-filled biscuit lands in that tradition rather than in the fresh-fruit one, which is why it reads as a treat where the raspberry version reads as an everyday biscuit, and why it is the one children pick out of a tin first. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe.What is in Jammie Dodgers Cherry Flavour Biscuits, 140g, and what is not:In: filled shortcake sandwich biscuits with a cherry flavour centre, in a single sealed 140g pack.No almond claim: the almond association is cultural rather than an ingredient statement. The declaration is on the current UK pack and should be read by anyone avoiding nuts."
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                "content": "The flavour of Jammie Dodgers Cherry Flavour Biscuits, 140g is built in three layers, and what distinguishes this version from the rest of the range is not what is in the middle so much as what is missing from it.It smells of a plain sweet biscuit and gives nothing away. The window does the identifying: the cherry centre shows through noticeably darker than raspberry, a deep red bordering on brown rather than a bright one, and that visual difference is a fair preview of the taste. Dark in the window tends to mean deep on the palate, and it does here.The flavour spike is the cherry, and its defining property is the absence of acidity. Real cherries carry a fair amount of acid; a cherry flavour in British confectionery generally does not, and this one lands as a deep, round, continuous sweetness rather than as a peak. The consequence is a biscuit that reads as a treat rather than as an everyday item, and a sweetness that never gets interrupted anywhere in the bite. It also puts the biscuit in the bakewell corner of British baking, where the palate half expects almond alongside it, which is a cultural expectation rather than anything in the pack. Placed beside the raspberry version the difference is immediate: raspberry has a small bright edge that clears, and cherry does not clear at all.The base structure is soft rather than crisp, and it governs the finish and the practicalities. The rounds compress under the teeth instead of shattering, the crumb lingers and coats, and with a continuous sweetness behind it the finish is the longest of the three flavours. That is why the second biscuit tastes flatter than the first unless something has cleared the palate in between, and it is the single strongest argument for drinking this one with a properly brewed cup rather than a mild one.Getting it right in the cup. Brew it strong. One bag per 200ml at a full boil for four minutes, only a little milk, no sugar. Tannin is the tool: it cuts a continuous sweetness and resets the palate between biscuits, and because there is no acidity in the filling there is nothing to clash with it, so this is the one Dodger that positively benefits from a properly made cup. The tropical version would be flattened by the same mug. Avoid flavoured teas, and Earl Grey in particular, since bergamot and cherry both want the front of the palate and neither wins. One second is the dunking limit; the window is why.How water and temperature change it. As with every filled shortcake, heat rather than air is what damages it. The centre holds moisture, so an opened pack is still worth eating several days later, but a warm cupboard turns the filling tacky and the rounds heavy and the biscuit stops crumbling cleanly. Store cool and dry, and a tin beats a resealed film pack. Cold flatters this flavour more than the others: a biscuit from a cold larder tastes appreciably less sweet, which is worth knowing if you find the cherry version too much at room temperature. On the drink side, hard water pulls more tannin out of a black tea in the same four minutes, and here that is an unqualified advantage, since tannin is exactly what this biscuit is asking the cup to provide."
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                "content": "Recipes, born here first\n\n \n The Strong Mug\n \n How to make The Strong Mug with Jammie Dodgers Cherry.\n \n 6 min\n 1 serving\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 biscuits\n 1 bag black tea\n 200ml water at a full boil\n A little milk\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew a full four minutes. This is the one Dodger that benefits from a properly made cup.\n Add only a little milk, because milk softens the tannin you are relying on, and no sugar.\n Drink between biscuits rather than after them. The sweetness here is continuous and the palate needs clearing.\n Stop at two. The third is noticeably harder work than it is with the raspberry.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: The pairing this filling was waiting for, and the opposite of what the tropical version needs.\n\n \n The Bakewell Plate\n \n How to build The Bakewell Plate with Jammie Dodgers Cherry.\n \n 5 min\n 4 servings\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 8 biscuits\n An almond or bakewell slice\n A pot of plain black tea\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Check the almond item for allergens first, and ask the table before you serve it.\n Lay the biscuits window up beside the slice so the dark centre shows.\n Brew plain black tea rather than anything flavoured. Earl Grey and cherry compete for the same attention.\n Serve both together rather than in sequence, because the pairing is the point.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A children's biscuit turned into an afternoon plate, on the strength of an association rather than an ingredient.\n\n \n The Iced Afternoon\n \n How to make The Iced Afternoon with Jammie Dodgers Cherry.\n \n 10 min\n 2 servings\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 4 biscuits\n 2 bags black tea\n A tall glass of ice\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew two bags in 300ml for four minutes and let it cool rather than pouring it hot over ice.\n Fill the glasses with ice and pour the cooled tea over.\n Leave it unsweetened. The biscuit is carrying all the sugar this needs.\n Serve the biscuits on the side; cold tea does not soften the filling the way a hot mug does.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n Crumbled Over Rice Pudding\n \n How to use Jammie Dodgers Cherry over rice pudding.\n \n 5 min\n 4 servings\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 4 biscuits\n Warm rice pudding or baked custard\n A spoonful of jam, optional\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Warm the pudding and spoon it into bowls.\n Crumble the biscuits over at the table rather than in the kitchen, so they keep some texture.\n Watch the filling soften into the pudding; it reads as a jam swirl rather than as a biscuit.\n Skip the extra jam if you have used four biscuits. The cherry is already doing that job.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A plain pudding with a jam swirl through it, made out of four biscuits and no extra work."
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