T'huh.Ī couple of years ago, I noted Trader Joe's carries unsweetened shredded coconut. Tahitis aren't sold individually any longer, but they're still included one of the large PF chocolate cookie collections - in which you get four Tahitis for your six or seven bucks. They dropped off the shelves at least a year or two before the unfilled Pirouettes became extinct. The semi-discontinued Pepperidge Farm cookie I miss the most, however, is the Tahiti, a coconut and chocolate delight. I'd love to see PF's manufacturing process for them. Liddy), but those things are danged hot straight off the cookie sheet, and you only have a minute or two to work with them before they set up and won't roll, and I think any kind of protective glove would be too cumbersome. Per Julia, I've made it a point to develop asbestos hands over the years ("The trick is not minding" - G. My own attempts at making piroulines (aka Russian Cigars, I think) have produced mixed results. Trader Joe's carries a very similar unfilled pirouline cookie, but the PF ones were much better, in my opinion (and were bigger by perhaps 50%). I have no interest in the filled ones because I like them filled with slightly melty ice cream. I always bought those when I planned to make vanilla ice cream as they were the perfect combination. Odd fact: The Peek Frean factory in Toronto is located in Bermondsey Road.I haven't seen the unfilled Pirouettes for four or five years now. Peek Freans biscuits can still be purchased in the United States and Canada (see the link). Staff magazines including The Biscuit Box and PF Assorted also brought together a workforce which numbered 4,000 by the 1940s. The company pioneered the supply of medical, dental and optical services to their staff as well as founding clubs ranging from athletics and cricket to music and drama. With the cocktail age came Cheeselets and Twiglets in the 1930s. Celebrated lines invented by Peek Freans include the Garibaldi (1861), Marie (1875), Chocolate Table (the first chocolate coated biscuit in 1899) and the Bourbon (1910). James Peek and George Hender Frean built the factory in 1866 and the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 brought the company to prominence, when ten million fine navy biscuits were ordered for the troops. The Peek Frean and Co biscuit factory provided Bermondsey and Rotherhithe with a major source of employment until it closed in 1989 and for decades the area was known as Biscuit Town. The sight, the sound and the smell, it was Bermondsey! What was being made today? Sweet or savoury? In summer the doors of the factory would be open and you could see the people in white aprons packing the biscuits. It employed generations of local residents.Ī Southwark resident who voted for a blue plaque, said: Peek Freans was on my way to school - each morning, walking along Drummond Road, it would be a guessing game. Nine years later they moved to Clements Road where the factory remained until 1989.īuilt in 1866, Peek Frean and Co's biscuit factory gave Bermondsey the nickname 'Biscuit Town' for popular creations that included the bourbon and the Garibaldi. Location: 100 Clements Road, Bermondsey, London, SE16 4DGĭescription: James Peek and George Hender Frean founded the company at Dockhead in 1857.
The location of the old sweet smelling biscuit factory!
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