Leibniz
Leibniz Butter Biscuits are a reference point for the whole butter biscuit style: plain, crisp and golden, with the toothed edge and the name pressed into the middle. Bahlsen has baked them in Hanover since 1891, and they hold together long enough to dunk in a strong English Breakfast. Nobody will call them exciting, which is rather the point.
Leibniz Butter Biscuits are a reference point for the whole butter biscuit style: plain, crisp and golden, with the toothed edge and the name pressed into the middle. Bahlsen has baked them in Hanover since 1891, and they hold together long enough to dunk in a strong English Breakfast. Nobody will call them exciting, which is rather the point.
About Leibniz
Leibniz is the butter biscuit of Bahlsen, the company Hermann Bahlsen founded in Hanover in 1889. The first Leibniz biscuit came out in 1891, named after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the city's renowned polymath, and by 1893 it had won a gold medal at the World's Fair in Chicago. Bahlsen is still family-owned and still based in Hanover.
Leibniz is the biscuit for the plain, everyday cup, and for anyone who finds a digestive too crumbly and a cookie too sweet. It dunks well, holding together long enough for a strong English Breakfast or a malty Assam, and its dry snap sits nicely against a milky coffee or a mid-morning Earl Grey. Nobody will call it exciting, which is rather the point.
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Leibniz Butter Biscuits is the plain rectangular butter biscuit with the notched edge, 200g from the German house that made the shape a staple.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list…
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Leibniz is the butter biscuit of Bahlsen, the company Hermann Bahlsen founded in Hanover in 1889. The first Leibniz biscuit came out in 1891, named after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the city's renowned polymath, and by 1893 it had won a gold medal at the World's Fair in Chicago. Bahlsen is still family-owned and still based in Hanover.

