MILK POWDER ALERT!!
Waitrose have gone and deprived us of one of our staples for making cheesecakes!
The biscuit shelves in one of the Waitrose stores which I use now carries a label stating that their own digestive biscuits now contain milk!! They’ve changed the recipe. Apparently all new batches have new labels which have whey powder as an ingredient and include milk in the allergens list.
This is a disaster! Now we have no digestive biscuits at all that I can find without milk in them. (Other than food-free gluten-free ones baked with added cement dust.) We’re reduced to either Rich Tea or baking our own again. Why can’t they just leave a good recipe alone? Presumably milk powder is now cheap again, since it all tends to come back to overheads.
BE VERY CAREFUL!
If you have bought any Waitrose Essentials Digestive Biscuits in the last week or two, check the list ingredients very carefully. The label didn’t give a date when the recipe changed, nor did it say how long it had been there so I don’t know when exactly they became toxic. If you are in any doubt, it is always safer not to risk it.
Hello,
What a shame Waitrose changed their recipe! It’s very annoying. I don’t know if you’d be interested but Tesco Value digestives are milk free. I know the quality won’t be anywhere near Waitrose own brand but at least they don’t have milk in, and they are edible, I have bought them in the past for cheesecake bases. They are OK as long as you don’t add too much margarine. All other Tesco own brand digestives (including freefrom) contain milk.
Hope that helps!
Helen
PS Did you ever get my recipe for dairy free cream cheese frosting?
Hello Helen,
Yes indeed I’m glad to hear there is still a source of digestives available! Rich Tea biscuits aren’t really quite as good, so I shall have to go up to Tesco’s and have a look for some. I tend to use Waitrose more primarily because I have to go to the town where they are in any case, whereas Tesco means a 20 minute drive just for that. The inevitable drawback to living in a rural area.
As for your frosting recipe, yes I did get it and yes I am feeling guilty for not having posted it for you. Very sorry! Will put this right this afternoon, with luck.
All the best,
Sian.
Mosti gingernuts seem to be dairy free- and make a more interesting base for cheescake type things anyway. How do you make dairy-free cheescake though? I assume there’s a recipe on here somewhere
You’re right about the gingernuts. I like them for bases too. Children can find them very hard to break up with the old rolling pin technique, but they are also frequently so hard that they can literally blunt a blade in a food processor if you put in large pieces. As for a recipe, we have a lemon vanilla cheesecake recipe on the site which is a baked cheesecake. I’m working on an unbaked cheesecake which is now in its final test stage and should be up soon.