Jammie Dodgers Raspberry Flavour Biscuits, 140g
By weight this is far more shortcake than jam, which is not how anyone ever describes it. The filling is a small disc in the middle of a lot of soft sweet biscuit, and it wins the argument because colour and sweetness carry further than butter ever does. Judge it as a shortcake and it is soft rather than short, which is a reasonable complaint and also why it survives a child's hand without going everywhere. It gets eaten standing up, out of the packet on a worktop rather than off a plate, and that is a fair description of its ambition.
Jammie Dodgers Raspberry Flavour Biscuits, in brief.
Jammie Dodgers Raspberry Flavour Biscuits is the original heart-window shortcake sandwich, two soft shortcake rounds with a sweet red centre showing through the lid, picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the biscuit every other version in the range is measured against.
Raspberry is sweet rather than sharp, so unlike the tropical version it has no acidity to argue with tannin and fits an ordinary mug of tea without any adjustment. One second is the dunking limit, and the window is why.
Jammie Dodgers Raspberry Flavour Biscuits is the original, and the one every other version in the range is measured against. Two rounds of soft shortcake, a red centre, and a heart cut out of the top round so the filling shows through. There is no clever idea in it and there does not need to be. It has held its place in British biscuit tins for decades because the balance is right: enough jam to matter, enough biscuit to carry it, and not so much sugar that a second one is a mistake.
What we can tell you is that the pack empties faster in a house with children in it than the weight suggests it should.
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.
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The Story Behind The Pack
A jam sandwich biscuit with a window cut in the lid is an old British idea, and the window is the part that has kept it alive. It began as a practical detail: cutting a shape out of the top round lets steam escape during the bake, so the lid sits flat instead of doming over a wet filling. What it also does is turn a plain biscuit into something a child recognises across a room. Very few biscuits can be identified from three feet away by a five-year-old; this one can, and that is worth more than any recipe change.
Raspberry is the flavour that made the format work, and it is not an accident that it remains the default. A jam centre has to be sweet enough to read as jam and mild enough not to fight a sweet biscuit, and red fruit sits in exactly that window. The tropical and cherry versions we also carry push harder in one direction or the other; this one holds the middle. 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.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our Commitment To The Planet
- 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.
The Cold Milk Serve
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Serve: A tall glass of cold milk, which is what most people met this biscuit with long before they met it with tea.
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Result:
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Jammie Dodgers Raspberry Flavour Biscuits, 140g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Jammie Dodgers
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
This is the most forgiving biscuit in the Dodger range to pair, because the raspberry is sweet rather than sharp and has no acidity to argue with tannin. A standard mug of builder's tea at normal strength works without any adjustment at all, which cannot be said for the tropical version. The only two rules are no sugar in the cup, because the biscuit has that covered, and no serious dunking, because the window in the lid lets tea straight into the filling.
The Everyday Mug
Brewing Notes For Jammie Dodgers Raspberry Flavour Biscuits, 140g
Made with this tea
The Ordinary Mug
How to make The Ordinary Mug with Jammie Dodgers Raspberry.
- 2 biscuits
- 1 bag standard black tea
- 200ml water at a full boil
- Milk
- Brew one bag in 200ml for three to four minutes. No adjustment; this biscuit fits the cup you were going to make anyway.
- Add milk as usual and leave the sugar out. The biscuit has that covered twice over.
- Eat beside the mug. One second is the dunking limit and the window is the reason.
- Take a mouthful of tea between biscuits. The finish coats slightly, and the second one tastes brighter if you clear the palate first.
The Cold Milk Serve
How to make The Cold Milk Serve with Jammie Dodgers Raspberry.
- 3 biscuits
- 1 tall glass of cold milk
- Pour the milk straight from the fridge.
- Eat one biscuit dry and notice the jam leading.
- Drink, then eat the next.
- Stop there if it is late. This is a sweeter biscuit than it tastes.
What you'll end up with: The same biscuit reading as a sweet shortcake rather than a jam sandwich, which is worth doing once.
The Ice Cream Sandwich
How to make The Ice Cream Sandwich with Jammie Dodgers Raspberry.
- 8 biscuits
- Firm vanilla ice cream
- 30 minutes in the freezer
- Soften the ice cream for five minutes, no longer. Soft-scoop will not hold.
- Spread a thick disc onto four biscuits and press a second biscuit on top, window up.
- Freeze for thirty minutes so the whole thing firms into one piece.
- Eat straight from the freezer. A soft round presses into ice cream without shattering, which is the one job a crisp biscuit cannot do here.
What you'll end up with: A pudding out of a biscuit tin, and the best use of a soft filled shortcake there is.
The Tea Party Plate
How to build The Tea Party Plate with Jammie Dodgers Raspberry.
- 12 biscuits
- A pot of weak tea or a fruit infusion
- Strawberries or grapes
- Stack the biscuits window up so the red shows. It is most of the appeal and it costs nothing.
- Brew the pot weaker than usual if children are drinking it, or pour a plain fruit infusion instead.
- Put fruit on the plate alongside so the biscuits are part of something rather than all of it.
- Allow two each and expect three. The sweetness is even rather than spiking, which is exactly why.
What you'll end up with: A plate that looks considered, built on the one biscuit nobody argues about.
Keeping The Pack Worth Eating
How to store an opened pack of Jammie Dodgers Raspberry.
- The opened pack
- A tin with a lid
- A cool dry cupboard
- Tip the biscuits into a tin rather than resealing the film, which never quite closes again.
- Keep them off the shelf above the kettle. Heat is the problem here, not air.
- Check the centre after a few days: tacky filling and heavy rounds mean the cupboard is too warm.
- Use softening biscuits for the ice cream sandwiches rather than throwing them out.
What you'll end up with: Several days of a pack that is still worth opening, which a crisp biscuit will not give you.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 429 kcal |
| Fat | 14g |
| of which saturates | 6.5g |
| Carbohydrate | 67g |
| of which sugars | 29g |
| Fibre | 2.1g |
| Protein | 5.3g |
| Salt | 0.56g |
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 and Thiamin), Raspberry Flavour Apple Jam (27%) (Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Apples (Sulphites), Sugar, Humectant (Glycerol), Acid (Citric Acid), Flavourings, Colours (Anthocyanins, Annatto Norbixin), Gelling Agent (Pectin), Acidity Regulator (Sodium Citrates)), Vegetable Oils (Sustainable Palm, Rapeseed), Sugar, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Raising Agents (Ammonium Bicarbonate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Salt, Flavourings.
Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Shortcake rounds | the body | Sandy, soft and properly sweet. They crumble at the edge rather than breaking in a clean line, which makes the biscuit comfortable to eat slowly and unreliable in a hot mug. |
| Raspberry flavour centre | the middle layer | Sweet, red and softly fruity rather than sharp. |
| The heart window | cut in the top round | Lets steam out during the bake so the lid sits flat, and shows the filling before the biscuit is picked up. It is also the route hot tea takes into the centre, which is why this is not a dunking biscuit. |
| Pack weight | 140g | The biscuit count is not given in the published pack listing and we state none. |
Pack: Jammie Dodgers Raspberry 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 Raspberry Flavour Biscuits, 140g is the original of a format older than any of its flavour variants. A jam sandwich biscuit with a shape cut out of the lid is an old British idea, and the window has kept it alive: it started as a way of letting steam out during the bake, and it ended up as the reason a five-year-old can identify the biscuit from three feet away. Raspberry is the flavour that made the format work and remains the default for a sound reason, because a jam centre has to be sweet enough to read as jam and mild enough not to fight a sweet biscuit, and red fruit sits exactly in that window. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe.
What is in Jammie Dodgers Raspberry Flavour Biscuits, 140g, and what is not:
- In: filled shortcake sandwich biscuits with a raspberry flavour centre, in a single sealed 140g pack.
- Not a dunking biscuit: the window in the lid is an open route for hot tea, which is an editorial description of how it behaves rather than a claim off the pack.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Jammie Dodgers Raspberry Flavour Biscuits, 140g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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