Biglets 2
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Part-baked baguettes are cut into twig shapes, toasted and coated with Marmite to make a pile of oversized Twiglets.
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- The shopping was Twiglet Originals at 89p, 4 "M" baguettes at 65p, a large Marmite at £3.98 and a selection of premium Belgian beers at £25.87, £33.34 in all. After 3 days of planning the makers found someone else had posted Biglets first, and they had eaten 3 bags of the real thing during the cooking. A mini pile of Twiglets was assembled as the pattern and the half-baked baguettes carved so each mirrored a miniature. The pieces were baked at gas mark 7 for 6 minutes on each side, then spread thinly with Marmite because it bubbles, having trialled a single twig, and returned to the oven for another two minutes each side, with a warning not to overdo it. Reassembled like the originals, the Biglets sat as a monument in the middle of the patio. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6 · Source 7 · Source 8
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The ingredients were gathered together, and we assembled our mini pile of the savioury snack, in order that we could recreate it exactly in gargantuan proportion. We carved painstakinly through the half baked baguettes so each mirrored it’s miniature counterpart.
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Twiglet Originals 89p
"M" Baguettes 65p x 4
Large Marmite £3.98
Selection of premium Belgian beers. £25.87
Total cost £33.34
Aaaaaah!!! 3 days in planning, a fridge full of beer and an evening of stinking marmitey toil only to find somebody has beaten us too it, we should have posted our pics that night and we would have been first! And they even had the nerve to call them Biglets. Still a bit of competition never hurt, and at least we have the biggest pile. To think that across the country in a far off home, somebody was Bigletting just as we were!
The task ahead, to Big Up our favorite snack the Twiglet. You either love em or hate em, and now with a house stinking of marmite and with sticky Biglet marmite crumbs in every nook and cranny of the kitchen we are siding with the latter, at least for the time being. We thought this would be a simple piece of fun, but with after an evening of toil and with what looks like poo stains all over our clothes we have learned our lesson.
The ingredients were gathered together, and we assembled our mini pile of the savioury snack, in order that we could recreate it exactly in gargantuan proportion. We carved painstakinly through the half baked baguettes so each mirrored it’s miniature counterpart.
These were baked at gas mark 7 for 6 minutes on each side.
Hereafter comes the messy process of enmarmiting the naked twigs. We had trialed a single twig and realised that less was best, as the marmite tends to bubble quite a bit.
After the messy process of spreading they were placed back in the oven for another two minutes each side, be careful not to over do it at this stage.
Finally they were reassembled in the fashion of their tiny relatives. Unfortunately having eaten 3 bags of the real thing during the cooking process we were a bit marmited out, and they now sit as a monument to twiglets in the middle of the patio.
