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Local Honey from Northern Ireland Flowers

6 February, 2018 by admin

Honey is a special ingredient, used for thousands of years, renowned for beneficial health properties and a huge variety of distinctive flavours.

Our honey comes from bees who collect pollen in the neighbouring fields, before their honey is harvested by an apiarist (beekeeper) just five minutes down the road from our kitchen in County Down.

A chef himself, and avid apiarist, his bees are carefully managed, producing a select amount of honey each year. The honey gives our biscuits a unique sweetness and soft texture, perfect for a luxurious finish.

The Finest Butter Available

6 February, 2018 by admin

The beautiful, creamy, rich butter for our biscuits comes from the award winning Abernethy Butter.

Made by hand using traditional methods at their farm in County Down (a few minutes from where our biscuits are made), Abernethy Butter uses cream from a local farmer who pasteurises his own milk.

The cream is churned to separate it into butter and buttermilk, before the butter is washed by hand. A pinch or two of salt is added before it’s hand rolled, ready for wrapping.

After unwrapping, the butter is added to our mixing bowl, producing a soft, buttery biscuit, perfect for one of the most indulgent biscuits available in the world.

Abernethy Butter Great Taste Awards 2017

For more information on Abernethy Butter, visit their website and follow them on social media.

Irish Whiskey

5 February, 2018 by admin

The whiskey for our biscuits is as steeped in flavour, as it is in history, and distilled in the far north of Northern Ireland.

A single malt, with an iconic taste, we opted for a high percentage of whiskey in our biscuits. While the increased liquid makes a softer biscuit, we believe it also makes for a better biscuit, with a genuine whiskey malt taste.

We tested a small number of well known whiskeys in a wide variety of amounts and concentrations, to come up with the optimum percentage. Added at a key point in the mixing, our biscuits retain a delicious whiskey flavour, a flavour uniquely available from Northern Ireland.