Morrisons Bourbon Creams - 300g

In the British biscuit tin, the bourbon sits near the top of the pecking order, right beside the custard cream. It is not the posh one and never tries to be. It is the workhorse of the tea break, and for plenty of families the supermarket packet was the only bourbon they ever knew.

That is exactly why people go looking for this one. You are not after any old biscuit, you want the packet that came home in the weekly shop and lived in the cupboard next to the tea bags. Same shape, same holes, same cream in the middle you were told off for licking out.

It comes as a 300g packet, which sounds like a lot until you open it. Keep it in the cupboard, and once it is open, roll the end over tight or tip the lot into a tin so they stay crisp. A bourbon wants a mug of tea beside it, and a quick dunk rather than a long soak, unless you enjoy fishing.

It tends to go in the basket with a box of proper British tea bags and a packet of custard creams, because a plate of biscuits for visitors never has just one kind on it.