Bath Olivers are bland flavoured, thin, crisp, ivory-coloured biscuits with tiny holes poked in them. They are made from fat (butter, oil and beef fat), flour, milk and yeast, and sold in a white paper cylinder. They are good with cheese. Bath Olivers are relatively expensive, about twice the price of water biscuits. History Notes…
Crackers
Breakfast Crackers
Breakfast Crackers are crispy, bland tasting crackers made in various countries such as Sweden, UK, etc. You can put put honey, jam or peanut butter on them, or marmalade, cheese, etc. They are served at some schools in America as part of school breakfasts. Substitutes Water biscuits Sources Neil, Marc. Govt’s crackers ban may anger…
Cracker Barrel
Crackers were just shipped as generic items in barrels to general stores in North America, where they would be sold by the handful. It was a man named Adolphus Green who decided in 1898 that he didn’t want his crackers to be anonymous. He had his crackers made in octagonal shapes so that they would…
Crackers
A Cracker is a dry, thin, unsweetened, flat biscuit. You can also think of it as a dried flat bread. Crackers can be leavened or unleavened. Saltines are sometimes called “soda crackers” because of the baking soda used in them. Though the word Crackers is also used in the UK, it is used to refer…
Cream Corn Pancakes
These are very tasty fritters.
Graham Crackers
Graham crackers (aka Graham wafers) are flat, crisp wafers made from graham flour and sweetened, often with honey. They are considered a sweet biscuit rather than a savoury biscuit or cracker. You can buy the crackers already ground into crumbs. Cooking Tips To make crumbs, whiz in food processor or place between two sheets of…
Matzo
Matzo is a flat bread made in thin sheets made from white wheat flour and water with no leavener. Despite the absence of leavener, Matzo bread isn’t heavy. It is baked in very hot ovens so that air trapped in the dough expands and make the bread light. The bread comes perforated so it is…
Oyster Crackers
Oyster Crackers are round, hard crackers meant to be added to bowls of soup at the table in which they soften. They are very small, generally just about 1/2 inch round (1 cm.) They are made from flour, water and just a touch of salt in the dough. No leavener is used. They taste like…
Saltine Crackers
Saltines are sometimes called “soda crackers” because of the baking soda used in them. Saltines or Soda Crackers are square crackers, 2 inches by 2 inches (5 x 5 cm), that are salted. Tiny holes (called “docker holes”) are punched in them before baking to allow the steam to escape. They are sometimes sold as…
Senbei
Senbei are crispy Japanese crackers made from wheat flour and glutinous rice. They come in various flavours including miso and even mayonnaise now. Sometimes they are just brushed with sweetened soy sauce; sometimes they also have a seasoning that includes sesame and salt fish. Sweet ones have sugar in them, and sometimes egg. To make…
Tsujiura Senbei
A Tsujiura Senbei is a Japanese cracker with a written fortune inside. The cracker is made from unsweetened rice dough. These are used in Japan at Shinto Shrines at New Year, particularly in Kyoto. Some people speculate that fortune cookies may have been modelled on Tsujiura Senbei, though unlike fortune cookies, Tsujiura Senbei are not…