written by BAC68 on 07/07/2017
I was so so happy to find these as I'd tried to describe them to my children. What an absolute disappointment! Gone are the oh so flaky voluminous layers with the sticky yummy glaze. The biscuit is like underbaked cardboard, and where ARE the puffy layers?,? Gone is the tangy lemon, to be replaced by a vile sickly dried out filling. As for the shape - why do manufacturers thing it's ok to toy with that? The price is horrendous! £1.80 in Asda. I wouldn't mind half as much, had they been the original recipe. Overall a very very pale (literally) imitation of the fabulous much missed originals. Shame on you Jacobs, for tinkering with what was already perfect! My advice - keep your money in your pocket and buy something else.
written by on 06/09/2016
Was it Jacobs that used to make those lemon puffs which were rectangular and slightly sticky? I used always to have those with my morning coffee but cannot find them now. They were the best lemon biscuit out, why do manufacturers have to discontinue them?
written by jackervacker on 19/05/2016
Wishing to have a nostalgic trip to a fantastic taste of childhood to share with my Grandchildren I have been searching for Lemon Puffs. Not any ol' Lemon Biscuit, but the delightful flakey, sugary glazed lemony puff treat of the past. Sadly that's how it'll remain, a memory of the past as the ones purchased are just VILE, so say us all. Why,why,why change something so perfect for something so awful. RIP Lemon Puffs you are sadly missed and I'll never buy the new ones again! Stick to Tunnocks Tea Cakes in future......Yum,yum.
written by goldxx on 06/02/2016
Bought some today never again they were rank and to expensive why are they so expensive
Written on: 08/04/2016
This review by goldxx is spot on having bought some from my local Aldi store I was appalled at the price ( £1.63 ) for 200g McVities but paid it because of my memories of what they were like to say that they tasted rank is an understatement!! They were disgusting and an insult to other biscuits being called a biscuit never again me thinks it may be the manufacture but have found the expensive price for any make is not worth the effort and cost to find out if they are not
written by rowanspaniel on 26/09/2014
These biscuits used to be my favourites,but have not had any for a long time....Saw them on the shelf at the supermarket so decided to treat myself.....Oh Lawd,what a disappointment....They used to have a lovely crisp outer biscuit with a nice glaze but now the biscuit part is dry and stoggy...tastes like underbaked dough....the filling is too sweet and they are so awful I wont be buying them again....
Written on: 17/12/2014
You should buy Maliban Lemon Puff from Sri Lanka - simply delicious
Written on: 17/12/2014
do you know of any UK supermarket that stocks these biscuits?....
written by 266Cleveland on 20/08/2014
Awful , awful , awful what have you done Jacobs
written by CassieConnell285 on 29/07/2014
Not had a lemon puff biscuit for ages, looking forward to getting home from shopping and have a nice cup of tea and a beautiful lemon puff. What a disappointment! Why do these so-called maker of biscuits change the recipe of good biscuits. Needless to say I won't be buying them again!!
written by sweet-cheeks on 11/06/2014
I love anything with a 'lemony' taste and when I found these were still around, bought some, BUT WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT, very dry, so I ended up splitting them and enjoying the filling on its own and 'dunking' the rest! As I paid £1.79p for them, I thought won't be buying them again. I now know why they were on offer at £1 the following week - nobody enjoyed them the same, but I gave them another try, won't be bothering again! Even 'dunked' the biscuit was still dry as you started to chew, why?
written by zwCollins223 on 08/03/2014
Bring back the original lemon puffs. This version is disgusting. What were the manufacturers thinking? The original was exactly that, completely different from the lemon creams from other manufacturers. If it's not broken - don't fix it!
written by on 10/02/2014
Lemon puffs it's in the word, what's happened to them. The lemon taste is there but the pastry should be puffy and crunchy and the shapes not right either so disappointed .
written by mammamarie on 20/01/2014
Where has the puff and the sticky glaze and the lemon taste gone and I was charged £1.79 for the taste of poop will not buy again
written by on 23/10/2013
The original square lemon puff was just that puffy flakey and slightly salty to compliment the sugary and tangy lemon inside. These are an insult to biscuit lovers everywhere. Oh my what a shock...how awful these are. I hope that Jacobs will take note of all these complaints, they are all over the webb and very bad for their image. Please go back to the original recipe, the shape is'nt important it's the taste.....and these are dreadful.
written by Woodpecker1 on 19/05/2012
This is a custard cream dressed up - it is not a lemon puff!! Wrong shape, no puff pastry, no glaze and hardly lemon flavoured. So disappointing and very expensive - definitely will not buy again. Has the recipe been lost on the way to Portugal as see they are now manufactured there. Translation problem for the ingredients!!! Why change a perfect biscuit to something very mundane. Should get done under the trade descriptions act!
written by intheshires on 08/05/2012
Completely ruined a classic. Why ? This version is tasteless cardboard. No nice flaky slightly caramalised in places biscuit. I'd say calling them lemon still borders on trade descriptions. What used to be my favourite biscuits have been insulted by this sad excuse. Please go back and make them like they used to be. Will not buy these again.
written by on 30/12/2011
Wanted to introduce my German partner to those mythical Lemon Puffs of my youth. Searched everywhere for them until I finally found them and told her to expect something special. What a disappointment, just a very vague resemblance to what I remembered them as. Where was the tang, the slightly sticky surface, the flakiness? Do not think I will be buying them again.
written by Candyfloss on 28/11/2011
My husband knew I had always loved lemon puffs, he put a packet of Jacobs in the shopping trolley, if they are Lemon Puffs I'd rather have Puff the Magic Dragon. There wasn't a puff to be seen, puff is supposed to be flakey, so flakey you wet your finger and pick the dropped bits up. Wouldn't want to waste a crumb! Where was the lemon? Did they forget to add it? Thanks but no thanks, I'll stick to Rich Tea until I find the real Lemon Puffs. Surely there is some-one who can make the mouth-watering originals. I'm waiting for them!
written by mofl on 11/11/2011
These are not the Lemon Puffs I remember.RUBBISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not Puff Biscuit No Glaze Filling is bland. I will Never trust Jacobs Retro Brands Again.......................
written by CorinnesMum on 19/08/2011
How could you do that to these biscuits??? I come late to this website but concur with everything said about how awful they are. I can't think what possessed you. Could keep me away from Jacobs biscuits forever. Please bring back the old shape and the old recipe. New ones are rubbish! Bow to public opinion, Jacobs
written by on 16/07/2011
I have a friend who was virtually addicted to Lemon Puffs years ago and I remembered them as rectangular, flaky puff pastry like glazed and a one of a kind icon. Caught up with him just recently and we bought some last week at Sainsburys and what have they done to them!!! Round! - Penny pinching! Flaky - No, it's just crumbly now. Glaze - Gone, dull generic finish. Disapointing, no wonder so many comments here, all saying the same, cannot manufacturers realise NOT to mess with classic recipies. JACOBS - DO THE RIGHT THING, GO BACK TO THE PROPER FLAKY, RECTANGULAR, GLAZED LEMON PUFFS!
written by JUICY JACKIE on 20/05/2011
OMG what a great travesty. I grew up knowing the lemon puff to be one of lifes great treats. The flaky light biscuit, filled with thick lemon cream and coated with sticky sugar.
When I had my own cash I used to buy a packet and eat it all by myself they were soooo yummy!!!
Now....they're not fit to even be classed in the Value/basic range!! The biscuit ( if it can be called that,) tasted like plain shortcrust pastry and the lemon wasn't enough to make it special.
By costing cutting, Jacobs have probably cut their sales so no-one is awinner here!!!! AS OTHERS - 1 STAR IS TOO MANY!!
Please. , please resort to the original receipe.
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Written on: 19/12/2017
From the mid-80s, the shells of Lemon Puff were made on the same production line as Cornish Wafer using a cut-sheet laminator that layered the dough prior to cutting the dough pieces and baking them to get the puff pastry. The shells were glazed then loaded into creamers were the sandwiches were formed, collated and wrapped. The lemon cream was made from chilled oil, scrapped off a refrigerator drum and left to stand to solidify, then mixed with sugar and lemon oil in batches.
Unfortunately, the cream making equipment was at the front end of the production line where the ingredients were stored and the creamers where at the opposite end of the line. The cream had to transported from the mixer in tubs through the factory to the creamers and shovelled from the tubs into the creamer’s hopper. A hygiene nightmare that has probably been solved by changing to the product made today..