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    "excerpt": "McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate is the oat biscuit under a milk chocolate coating, 262g in one pack, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the biscuit people reach for when a digestive feels too plain.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this product it contains wheat and oats (gluten), milk and soya. 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.The oats are the whole argument: a craggy, open, slightly chewy crumb where a digestive gives a fine sandy one, which is why a Hobnob holds a long dunk where a finer biscuit shears. The coating is on one face, so the oaty side stays open to the tea.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. Dunking method and storage are also covered in the detailed Q and A tab below.",
    "content_text": "McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate is the oat biscuit under a milk chocolate coating, two hundred and sixty-two grams in one pack, and it is the biscuit people reach for when a digestive feels too plain. The oats are the whole argument. They give a craggy, open, slightly chewy crumb where a digestive gives a fine sandy one, and that structure is why a Hobnob behaves differently in the hand, in the tin and in the cup.\n\nThe coating is on one face, which leaves the oaty side open, so it dunks. It holds together longer in hot tea than a fine-crumbed biscuit because the oat structure has something to it. It is not a subtle biscuit and it does not try to be.\n\n The Taste Profile\n\nMilk Chocolate: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Sweet, creamy and clearly in charge. A milk coating leads and the biscuit supports it.\nOat Character: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Toasty and cereal-like, and it survives the coating better than a plain wheat base would.\nSweetness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) High. Between the coating and the oats there is a lot of sugar in play, and it shows.\nDunkability: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Very good. The craggy oat structure holds together longer in hot tea than a fine crumb does.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.9 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk\n\n The Story Behind McVitie's\n\nMcVitie's is the largest name on any British biscuit shelf, and where the digestive is the brand's anchor, the Hobnob is the brand's answer to people who found the anchor dull. The range carries the line The Oaty One on pack, which is as accurate a piece of product naming as British biscuits have produced. The oats are not a garnish on a wheat biscuit, they are the structure of it, and everything that makes a Hobnob different from a digestive follows from that.\n\nMcVitie's is a long-established British brand, and that is company heritage rather than a claim about where this particular pack was made.\n\nPackaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.\n\n What You Are Actually Buying\n\nWeight: two hundred and sixty-two grams.\n\nCoated on one face: not enclosed, which is what leaves the oaty side open to the tea and makes the biscuit dunkable.\nLoose, not portioned: one pack with no inner wraps around individual biscuits, and a shorter life once opened than a wrapped multipack.\n\n How Does McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate Biscuits, 262g Compare to:\n\nMcVitie's Hobnobs Dark Chocolate Biscuits The Oaty One, 262g: the same biscuit under a dark coating at the same weight. Dark takes sugar out of the top and lets the toasted oat come forward; milk buries some of the oat under cream and sugar. Buy the milk one if you want comfort and the dark one if you want the cereal to be audible.\nMcVitie's Dark Chocolate Digestive Biscuits, 266g: the other side of the family. A wheatmeal digestive is drier and more savoury. A Hobnob is sweeter, chewier and better at holding a long dunk.\nMcVitie's Hobnobs The Oaty One 2 x Milk Chocolate Twin Pack Biscuits, 262g: the twin-pack listing of the same biscuit. Buy the twin pack for a household that empties one quickly, and this one otherwise.\n\n Ideal Serving Conditions\n\nA Hobnob is easier to serve than a digestive because it is sturdier, and harder to store because the same open structure that survives a dunk also takes in moisture from the air. Method first, then storage.\n\nThe Long Dunk\n\nChocolate side up: the coating is a waterproof lid. Keep it out of the tea and it holds the softened oats together.\nYou have longer than with a digestive: the oat structure is tougher, so a Hobnob tolerates a slow count where a fine-crumbed biscuit shears. Do not take that as permission to leave it in.\nTea off the boil: a minute is enough. Water straight from the kettle attacks the coating as well as the crumb, and melted chocolate in the tea is its own problem.\nEat it at once: the oats keep softening on the saucer and they go from chewy to pasty quickly.\n\nThe Dry Serve\n\nWith strong tea, not delicate tea: a milk coating and toasted oats need a builder's brew behind them. Green and white teas disappear completely.\nWith a flat white: milk chocolate and milk coffee is an easier pairing than milk chocolate and black coffee, which can read harsh against the sweetness.\nCold and crisp: a Hobnob kept properly sealed has a snap to it that is half the pleasure. A soft one is not worth eating.\nSeal it properly: reseal the inner wrapper or move the pack to a tin, and keep it away from the kettle and the hob.\n\n Getting It Right with a Hot Drink\n\nPairing: strong black tea for dunking, a milky coffee for eating dry, and cold milk if you are feeding children.\nAvoid: delicate green and white teas, and anything already sweetened, which pushes the whole thing over.\nDunking: yes, and it is more forgiving than a digestive. Chocolate side up, tea off the boil, in and out.\nStorage: cool, dry, dark and sealed. Days rather than weeks once open, and a soft Hobnob cannot be revived.\nBest with: the household tin, a work tin, a lunchbox, and any no-bake recipe that wants a chewier crumb than a digestive gives.\n\n Safety And Purity\n\nIngredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this product it contains wheat and oats (gluten), milk and soya. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.\n\nOats and gluten: oats are routinely handled alongside wheat, and this biscuit is a wheat and oat product. It is not suitable for a coeliac diet and nothing on this page should be read as saying otherwise.\n\nNo health claim: oats attract a great deal of loose talk.\n\nChild safety: keep out of reach of small children.",
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                "content": "What actually makes a Hobnob different from a digestive?The oats, and not as a garnish. They are the structure of the biscuit, which gives a craggy, open, slightly chewy crumb instead of the fine sandy one a digestive has. Everything else follows from that: it is sweeter, sturdier and better at holding a long dunk. Does it dunk better than a digestive?It lasts longer, which is not quite the same thing. The oat structure is tougher, so it tolerates a slower count before it gives way. A digestive takes tea more evenly through its thickness. Both want the chocolate side up and the tea a minute off the boil. Milk or dark?Milk leads with cream and sugar and puts the oats in the background. Dark steps back and lets the toasted oat come forward. The two are the same weight on our shelf, so it is purely a question of which half you want to taste. How many biscuits are in the pack?The pack is 262g and states its own count. How long does it keep once open?Days rather than weeks. An open oat structure takes moisture out of kitchen air quickly and a soft Hobnob cannot be brought back. Reseal the inner wrapper or move the pack to a tin, and keep it away from the kettle and the hob. Tea or coffee?Strong black tea for dunking. For eating dry a milky coffee works better than a black one, because milk chocolate against black coffee can read harsh. Delicate green and white teas lose outright. Can I bake with them?Yes, and they behave differently from a digestive. The crumb is chewier and coarser, so a Hobnob base has bite in it where a digestive base is sandy and clean. It is in the recipe tab, along with a rocky road and a crumble topping. Is it a lunchbox biscuit?It travels less well than a wrapped bar because the coating is exposed on one face and marks in a warm bag. For a lunchbox, a wrapped multipack is the better shape. For a tin, this is the better buy."
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                "content": "Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this product it contains wheat and oats (gluten), milk and soya. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredients, as published for this product: Rolled Oats (30%), Milk Chocolate (25%) [Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Dried Skimmed Milk, Dried Whey (Milk), Butter Oil (Milk), Vegetable Fats (Palm, Shea), Emulsifiers (Soya Lecithin, E476), Natural Flavouring], Wholemeal Wheat Flour (16%), Sugar, Vegetable Oil (Palm), Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Raising Agents (Sodium Bicarbonate, Ammonium Bicarbonate), Salt.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy494 kcalFat23.3gof which saturates11.5gCarbohydrate61.4gof which sugars32.3gFibre5.2gProtein7.0gSalt0.75gIngredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsPack: McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate Biscuits, 262g; oat biscuits coated in milk chocolate on one face. Store cool, dry and dark, and reseal the inner wrapper or decant to a tin once opened, because an open oat structure takes moisture out of the air quickly. Read the net weight, the biscuit count, the ingredient list, the allergen advice and the best-before date off the current UK pack.Characterising components shown.Sourcing & blend. McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate Biscuits, 262g is made by McVitie's, the largest name on any British biscuit shelf. Where the digestive is the brand's anchor product, the Hobnob is its answer to people who found the anchor dull, and the range carries the line The Oaty One on pack. That is accurate product naming: the oats are the structure of the biscuit rather than a garnish on a wheat one, and every difference between a Hobnob and a digestive follows from it.What's in McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate Biscuits, 262g, and what isn't:\nIn: oat biscuits coated in milk chocolate on one face, loose in a 262g pack.\n\nContains gluten: a wheat and oat product, not suitable for a coeliac diet.\nNo health claim: oats attract a great deal of loose talk. This is a chocolate biscuit and we claim no benefit of any kind for it."
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                "content": "The flavour of McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate Biscuits, 262g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the biscuit tastes the way it does from the first bite to the last swallow.The outer layer is the milk chocolate coating, and it covers one face rather than enclosing the biscuit. A milk coating is a lead flavour rather than a supporting one: it arrives sweet and creamy, it reaches the palate before anything else if you turn the biscuit over, and it sets the register for everything underneath. That is the trade a milk coating makes. It is the more comforting of the two coatings and the less revealing, because the sugar in it sits on top of the cereal rather than beside it.The flavour spike is the oat, and it is the reason this biscuit exists as something separate from a digestive. Rolled oats bring a toasted, cereal-like sweetness of their own, quite different from the nutty savoury note of wheatmeal, and enough of it survives a milk coating to be recognisable.The base structure is the crumb, and here the oats are doing physical work rather than flavour work. Rolled oats build a craggy, open, interlocked structure instead of the fine sandy one a wheat biscuit gives, so the biscuit has more mechanical strength and a slight chew to it. That is why a Hobnob tolerates a longer dunk than a digestive before it gives way, and why it reads chewy-crisp rather than short. The finish is sweet, toasty and reasonably long, with the oats outlasting the chocolate on the palate.Getting it right in the cup. Chocolate side up, always, because the coating is a waterproof lid that holds the softened oats together on the way to your mouth. Let the tea stand a minute off the boil: water straight from the kettle attacks the coating as well as the crumb, and melted chocolate in the tea is a separate problem from a biscuit in the tea. You have longer than you would with a digestive, because the oat structure is tougher, but that is a tolerance rather than an invitation. Take it out and eat it, because oats keep softening on the saucer and go from chewy to pasty quickly. The partner is a strong black tea. Eaten dry, a milky coffee suits it better than a black one, since milk chocolate against black coffee can read harsh.How water and temperature change it. Humidity is the enemy and the open structure is why. The same cragginess that lets a Hobnob survive a dunk gives kitchen air an enormous surface to work on, so an open pack softens quickly and a soft Hobnob cannot be brought back. Reseal the wrapper or move the pack to a tin, keep it away from the kettle, the hob and the window, and do not put biscuits in the fridge, which is damp and makes them sweat when they come out. Temperature acts on the coating instead: a warm room dulls the gloss and marks fingers, and chocolate that warms and re-sets leaves a pale bloom that is harmless and permanent. Tea temperature is the variable people underestimate most, because water straight off the boil and water that has stood two minutes behave completely differently against an exposed crumb. None of this is a fault in the biscuit. It is an open oat structure doing exactly what its geometry dictates, and that same geometry is what makes it the sturdier dunker in the first place."
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                "content": "McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate Biscuits, 262g is a better baking biscuit than people expect, because a chewy oat crumb keeps its bite where a fine one turns to paste. Six builds below cover the long dunk, a rocky road, an oaty no-bake base, a quick banana stack, a crumble topping and the tea tray.\nRecipes, born here first\n\n \n The Long Dunk\n \n How to make The Long Dunk with McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate.\n \n 5 min\n 1 cup\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 3 McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate\n 1 mug of strong black tea\n A splash of milk if you take it\n One minute of patience\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew the tea strong and let it stand a minute. Water straight off the boil attacks the coating as well as the crumb.\n Hold the biscuit chocolate side up. The coating is a waterproof lid and it holds the softened oats together.\n Count to three rather than to two. The oat structure gives you longer than a digestive does, which is the point of buying this one.\n Eat it straight away, before the oats go from chewy to pasty.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A biscuit that arrives intact and warm all the way through, which is the whole case for an oat crumb over a fine one.\n\n \n Hobnob Rocky Road\n \n How to make Hobnob Rocky Road with McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate.\n \n 20 min + chill\n 12 squares\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 200g McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate, broken\n 300g dark chocolate\n 100g butter\n 3 tablespoons golden syrup\n 100g mini marshmallows\n A handful of dried cherries\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Break the biscuits by hand into thumbnail pieces. Do not crush them: the chew is what you are buying.\n Melt the dark chocolate, butter and syrup together gently and let the pan cool for five minutes so the marshmallows survive.\n Fold in the biscuit, marshmallows and cherries until everything is coated.\n Press into a lined tin, chill until firm and cut into small squares. It is rich.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Dark chocolate around a milk-coated oat biscuit, which stops the whole tray becoming one flat note of sweetness.\n\n \n Oaty No-Bake Base\n \n How to make Oaty No-Bake Base with McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate.\n \n 15 min + chill\n One 20cm tin\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 250g McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate\n 100g butter, melted\n A pinch of salt\n A 20cm springform tin\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Blitz or bash the biscuits to a coarse rubble. Leave some texture in it, because a Hobnob base is meant to have bite.\n Stir in the melted butter and salt until a squeezed handful holds together.\n Press into the tin, working the edges hardest, and go easier than you would with a digestive so you do not compact the chew out of it.\n Chill for an hour before filling. It suits a cheesecake or a banoffee.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A base with chew and bite in it rather than the clean sandy snap a digestive gives. Choose it when the filling is soft and needs contrast.\n\n \n Five Minute Banana Stack\n \n How to make Five Minute Banana Stack with McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate.\n \n 5 min\n 2 servings\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 6 McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate\n 2 ripe bananas, sliced\n Thick Greek yoghurt or whipped cream\n A drizzle of honey\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Layer biscuits, banana and yoghurt in two glasses, chocolate side up each time so the coating stays dry as long as possible.\n Finish with a crumbled biscuit on top and a drizzle of honey.\n Leave it ten minutes if you want the biscuits soft, or eat it at once if you want them crisp. Both are good and they are different puddings.\n Do not make it in advance: past half an hour the whole thing collapses.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: The quickest pudding in the house, and the oats hold up against wet fruit far better than a plain shortcake would.\n\n \n Hobnob Crumble Topping\n \n How to make Hobnob Crumble Topping with McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate.\n \n 10 min + bake\n 4 servings\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 150g McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate, crushed\n 50g cold butter, cubed\n 700g apples or pears, sliced\n A pinch of salt and a little cinnamon\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Cook the fruit in a pan with a splash of water until it just starts to soften, then tip it into a baking dish.\n Rub the cold butter into the crushed biscuit with the salt and cinnamon until it clumps.\n Scatter over the fruit and bake at 180C until the top is dark and crisp, around twenty minutes.\n Watch it near the end. There is chocolate in the topping and it catches faster than a flour crumble.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A crumble topping that is already sweet, already oaty and already chocolatey, with none of the rubbing-in a proper crumble asks for.\n\n \n The Tea Tray for Four\n \n How to make The Tea Tray for Four with McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate.\n \n 5 min\n 4 servings\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 8 McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate\n A pot of strong black tea\n A sliced apple\n Cold milk for anyone who prefers it\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Warm the pot and brew the tea strong. A milk coating needs a brew with body behind it.\n Lay the biscuits chocolate side down so people pick them up by the oaty face and the coating is not fingerprinted first.\n Add sliced apple for acidity, which stops a tray of sweet biscuits becoming monotonous.\n Keep the rest of the pack sealed in the kitchen rather than open on the tray.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: The most reliable tea tray in the house, because almost nobody dislikes a Hobnob and it is sturdy enough to survive being handed round."
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