Good design at the School of Life
500 biscuits to make for The School of life Sunday sermon on Good Design held by Alice Rawsthorn, Design critic for the International Herald Tribune . They weren't just any old biscuits which had everyone at the Conway Hall, London on the 28th June 2009 munching.
Specially designed "digestives" or better "designtives" were mixed, kneaded, rolled out and baked by hand. Yes, all 500 of them.
Digestive biscuits were invented in 1892 by McVities and in the UK we now consume 52 chocolate digestives per second. They originally claimed to “aide” digestion but this has been proven untrue. In the States it’s still illegal to sell the biscuits under the name. Rachel Khoo has improved on the design of the digestive but giving it added “digestion” properties.
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on how they were 'designed' and the recipe.
Photos from event taken by Bronia Stewart.