N for nibble sticks.

Nibble sticks are pretty tasty. I knew this going into the recipe because we used to make this quite often.

When we were children in the summers we would go with a group of friends every clear Wednesday to the river for hours of swimming and fun. the area we used to go had several deep pools within about a quarter mile so if one was filled up you could always head over to the next.


the most popular one though had a large rock one could jump off. it wasn’t high out of the water only about two feet so it made it fun for all ages. we spent many hours taking turns jumping from this rock and working up an appetite.


Nibble sticks were the perfect cure for this. they were easy enough that we could make them on our own, and traveled well. by the time I was ten my mom had told us we needed to pack our own lunches for the river, so we did just that, making nibble sticks a staple. we had so much fun those Wednesdays.


nibble sticks are kind of a cross between biscuit and scone a little fluffier then a scone but not quite a biscuit either. they have Cheese an lunch meat mixed in which makes them feel more like a meal then plain biscuits. and easier then a sandwich because it doesn’t have to be assembled, and there is no chance of the contents slipping out and dropping out onto the ground. there is nothing worse then the contents of a sandwich slipping out of your bread onto the ground and being left standing there with two pieces of bread to eat, because dirt and pine needles are not palatable , and they will stick to cheese and sandwich meat.



my sister used to make these a lot for our trip to the river. and even though we would make the same recipe using the same instruction hers and mine always came out different from each others. to me hers always tasted better then mine. and I think the difference in them was the amount of mixing. hers were always a little more dense and flaky where as mine were more fluffy like a biscuit. I wonder which is the way its supposed to be. as the recipe gives no indication of finished texture. I guess it doesn’t matter though. both ways are tasty and that is what really counts.