Lemon not puffs!

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Jacob's Lemon Puff
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BAC68's review of Jacob's Lemon Puff

“Lemon not puffs!”

★☆☆☆☆

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.

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Pleasurebear's Response to BAC68's Review

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..

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