Rakusen's
Plainness is the point with a matzo: it carries cheese, smoked fish or marmalade without arguing. We stock Rakusen's flame-baked matzos in three packs, alongside its Ginger Biscuits and Dark Chocolate Digestives, from the Leeds business founded in 1900 by Lloyd Rakusen, a watchmaker who baked matzo each Passover in his back room.
Plainness is the point with a matzo: it carries cheese, smoked fish or marmalade without arguing. We stock Rakusen's flame-baked matzos in three packs, alongside its Ginger Biscuits and Dark Chocolate Digestives, from the Leeds business founded in 1900 by Lloyd Rakusen, a watchmaker who baked matzo each Passover in his back room.
About Rakusen's
Rakusen's was established in Leeds in 1900 by Lloyd Rakusen, a watchmaker who baked matzo each Passover in the back room of his terrace house. After his death in 1944 the business passed to his sons, Phillip and Mannie, and it is still made at its Leeds headquarters. Rakusen's says it was the UK's first water cracker maker, and that its whole cracker range is flame-baked to a traditional recipe.
The matzo is a cheeseboard cracker and a lunch base rather than a tea biscuit. The Ginger Biscuits are the tea-time line; give them a malty black tea such as an Assam. The dark chocolate digestive reads closer to a coffee biscuit, and a medium-roast filter handles the bitterness better than a light Ceylon.
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Rakusen's was established in Leeds in 1900 by Lloyd Rakusen, a watchmaker who baked matzo each Passover in the back room of his terrace house. After his death in 1944 the business passed to his sons, Phillip and Mannie, and it is still made at its Leeds headquarters. Rakusen's says it was the UK's first water cracker maker, and that its whole cracker range is flame-baked to a traditional recipe.
