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    "excerpt": "Jacob's Original Cream Crackers is a 300g pack of the plain laminated square that most British kitchens measure other crackers against, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the cheese base our shelf is built around.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten). Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.The rows of holes are docking holes: they let steam out so the folded layers lift and set rather than ballooning.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Buttering, storage and the grill trick are in the Q and A tab below.",
    "content_text": "Jacob's Original Cream Crackers is a 300g pack of the cracker most British kitchens measure the others against. It is the plain, pale, dock-holed square that turns up under cheese at the end of a meal, under butter at eleven in the morning and beside a bowl of soup when there is no bread in the house. The construction is more interesting than the look of it suggests. A cream cracker is a laminated dough, folded and rolled so that it bakes into many thin sheets rather than one solid slab, and the rows of small holes across the face are docking holes, punched to let steam escape so the layers lift a little and then set instead of ballooning into a pillow. That is where the particular texture comes from: a cracker that shatters into flakes rather than snapping into shards, and one that holds a wet topping for longer than its thinness has any right to. The name, as generally understood, comes from the creaming of the dough rather than from any dairy in it, but what is actually in this pack is on the label and not on this page. The Taste Profile\n\nLayered Crisp: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf (5/5) The defining quality. Lamination gives a flaky shatter rather than a hard snap, and it is the reason this cracker eats so lightly for its size.\nToasted Wheat: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Quiet, clean and pale rather than deeply browned. There is flavour here, but it is standing well back.\nSalt Edge: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) More present than on most plain crackers, and the thing that makes cheese taste more like itself rather than less.\nSweetness: \u25cf\u25cb\u25cb\u25cb\u25cb (1/5) Effectively absent. This is a savoury base and it behaves like one.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.8 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind Jacob's Jacob's is the name most closely tied to the cream cracker in Britain, and the style is one of the small number of biscuits that a brand name and a category name have grown into each other. That is heritage and shelf position rather than a claim about this pack: which bakery produced it, what flour went into it and what else runs on the same line are not things we know or assert. The ingredient list, the allergen advice, any certification marks and the country of origin must all be read off the current UK pack rather than taken from this page. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. What You Are Actually Buying \n\nThe structure is the product: lamination and docking are what you are paying for. Take them away and you have a water biscuit, which is a different and much more brittle thing.\n\n How Does Jacob's Original Cream Crackers, 300g Compare to: \nBorder Classic Biscuit Sharing Pack, 400g: The other end of the shelf and the other end of the meal. One follows the cheese, the other carries it.\nIsland Bakery Scottish Shortbread Organic Biscuits, 125g: Shortbread collapses under anything wet; a cream cracker was built for exactly that load. It is a good illustration of what lamination is for.\nBorder Butterscotch Crunch Organic Biscuits, 135g: A cream cracker deliberately has none, which is why it has outlasted a great many more interesting products.\n Ideal Brewing Conditions A cream cracker is a savoury base rather than a biscuit for a hot drink, so most of the advice here is about what goes on it. It does, though, take a cup of tea better than any other cracker on this shelf, because the salt edge gives a brisk brew something to push against. The Tea Break \nA strong brew with butter: a buttered cream cracker and a mug of builder's tea is a genuine British combination and a better one than it sounds. The salt and the tannin meet in the middle.\nWithout milk if the topping is cheese: milk and mature cheddar in the same mouthful is a muddle. A black Ceylon or a mild breakfast blend keeps things clean.\nMint tea with anything oily: if you are eating these with p\u00e2t\u00e9, oily fish or a soft cheese, mint resets the palate between mouthfuls better than black tea does.\nNot the heavy assams undressed: plain cracker and heavy malt is two dry things at once. Butter it first and the pairing works.\n The Cheese Board \n\nBlue cheese: the best argument for a plain base. Anything seasoned would fight it; this simply holds it up.\nSoft and washed-rind cheeses: fine, and helped by the lamination, which takes up a little of the moisture rather than going soggy on contact.\nBuild late: cheese, then chutney at the edge rather than across the middle, and onto the cracker at the last moment.\n Getting It Right in the Cup \nButter it properly: a thin scraping leaves the cracker dry. Cold butter cracks the layers, so let it soften first and spread it to the edges.\nStorage: airtight and dry. A laminated cracker loses its flake to humidity faster than it loses flavour to age, and an open sleeve in a steamy kitchen goes soft within days.\nRefresh it: three or four minutes in a low oven brings a soft cracker back, and it works well here because there is no coating to melt.\nGrill it: a cream cracker under cheese takes a grill better than bread does, because the layers stay rigid while the cheese melts across them.\nBest with: cheese, butter or soup, and a plate rather than a hand, because the flake goes everywhere.\n Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten). Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. On the word cream: the name is generally understood to describe the creaming of the dough rather than a dairy ingredient. That is an account of where a category name came from, not a statement about what is in this pack. Anybody avoiding dairy should read the ingredient list and the allergen statement on the current UK pack. Nutrition: the panel on the pack is the only reliable source.",
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                "title": "Product Questions",
                "content": "What are the rows of little holes for?They are docking holes, and they are structural. A laminated dough traps steam between its layers, and without somewhere for that steam to go the cracker would balloon into a pillow. The holes let it escape so the layers lift slightly and then set flat, which is exactly the texture you want under cheese. How many crackers are in the pack?What we can stand behind is the net weight, 300g. How do I butter one without breaking it?Soften the butter first. Cold butter drags and the layers give way under the knife, which is the commonest way a cream cracker is lost. Let it come to room temperature, spread to the edges rather than the middle, and support the cracker flat on a plate rather than holding it in the air. Why does it hold a wet topping better than a thinner cracker?Because of the layers. A laminated cracker takes moisture into the gaps between sheets before it reaches the structure, so it has a margin that a solid water biscuit does not. That is why a cream cracker under a soft cheese survives a few minutes on a board while a thinner, denser cracker goes at once. Which cheese goes best?Mature cheddar is the canonical answer and the salt in the cracker is what makes it work. Blue cheese is the best argument for a plain base, since anything seasoned would fight it. Soft and washed-rind cheeses are fine too, helped by the lamination. Put chutney at the edge rather than across the middle. Does it work with tea?Better than any other cracker on this shelf. A buttered cream cracker with a strong brew is a genuine British combination: the salt and the tannin meet in the middle. Drink it without milk if the topping is cheese, because milk and mature cheddar in one mouthful is a muddle. Can I put one under the grill?Yes, and it takes a grill better than bread does. The layers stay rigid while cheese melts across them, so you get a firm base instead of a soggy one. Keep it on a high shelf for a short time and watch it: a thin dry cracker colours at the edges quickly once the cheese has gone. My sleeve has gone soft. Is it finished?No. A laminated cracker loses its flake to humidity long before it loses flavour to age, and moisture is reversible. Three or four minutes in a low oven brings it back, and it works well here because there is no coating to melt. Cool them flat, and store the rest airtight away from the kettle. How is this different from a water biscuit?Lamination. A water biscuit is a thin, dense, hard bake that snaps into shards; a cream cracker is folded and rolled so it bakes into many thin sheets and shatters into flakes instead. The cream cracker is softer under the tooth, more forgiving under a wet topping and less likely to cut the roof of your mouth. Is this the same as the other Jacob's cream cracker packs?We list the original cream cracker in more than one pack size, including a 200g pack and twin packs. This page is the 300g single pack, GTIN 05000137121994. Check the size on the listing you are buying."
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                "content": "Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten). Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredients, as published for this barcode: Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Vegetable Oil (Palm), Salt, Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate), Yeast.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy440 kcalFat13.5gof which saturates6.2gCarbohydrate67.7gof which sugars1.4gFibre3.8gProtein10gSalt1.3gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.IngredientProportionWhat it bringsLaminated wheat doughthe bodyThe structure and the product. A dough folded and rolled so that it bakes into many thin sheets rather than one solid slab, which is why the cracker shatters into flakes instead of snapping into shards and why it holds a wet topping longer than its thinness suggests.Dockingthe methodNot an ingredient but the reason the cracker is flat. The rows of small holes let trapped steam escape so the layers lift slightly and then set, rather than ballooning into a pillow.SaltpresentMore forward than on most plain crackers, and the component that makes cheese taste more like itself. It is the reason the pairing works, rather than the wheat.Pack: Best before the date printed on the pack, and best kept airtight once a sleeve is opened.Characterising components shown; the full ingredient declaration, the nutrition panel, the cracker count, the inner packaging arrangement and any certification marks are printed on the current UK pack. The account of the word cream as a reference to the creaming of the dough is an account of a category name and not a statement about this pack's contents.Sourcing & blend. Jacob's Original Cream Crackers, 300g is the reference point for its category in Britain, one of the small number of products where a brand name and a style name have grown into each other. That is heritage and shelf position rather than a claim about which bakery produced this pack, what flour went into it or what else runs on the same line. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different specification.What is in Jacob's Original Cream Crackers, 300g:In: plain laminated wheat crackers, 300g to the pack, docked and baked flat with no coating, filling or flavour variant named on the front."
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                "content": "The flavour of Jacob's Original Cream Crackers, 300g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the cracker tastes the way it does from the moment the sleeve opens to the note left on the palate.A cream cracker is baked pale on purpose, and pale means very little browning, which in turn means very few of the toasted volatiles that give a digestive or a breadstick their smell. What you get instead is a faint, clean, biscuity note with almost nothing behind it. That absence is not a failure of the bake; it is the point of the product. A cracker meant to sit under a mature cheddar, a blue, a p\u00e2t\u00e9 or a spoonful of chutney cannot afford an aroma of its own, because it would arrive at the nose before the topping did and muddle it.The flavour spike is salt, and it is the one place a cream cracker asserts itself. There is a modest toasted wheat note underneath and effectively no sweetness at all, but the salt sits a little further forward than it does on most plain crackers, and that is what makes cheese taste more like itself rather than less. It is worth understanding why: salt suppresses the perception of bitterness and lifts the perception of savoury depth, so a salted base does real work on a strong cheese rather than simply carrying it. Take the salt away and you have a water biscuit, which is a cleaner but flatter partner.The base structure is texture, and it comes from lamination. The dough is folded and rolled so it bakes into many thin sheets with air between them, and the docking holes let the trapped steam out so those sheets lift slightly and then set instead of ballooning. The result is a cracker that shatters into flakes rather than snapping into shards, eats lightly for its size, and has a genuine structural margin under a wet topping: moisture goes into the gaps between the sheets before it reaches anything load-bearing. That is why a cream cracker under a soft cheese survives several minutes on a board when a denser, thinner cracker gives way on contact.Getting it right in the cup. Butter it properly before you do anything else, and soften the butter first: cold butter drags and the layers give way under the knife, which is the commonest way one of these is lost. Spread to the edges, support it flat on a plate, and put anything wet on at the last moment with chutney at the edge rather than across the middle. On the drink side this takes tea better than any other cracker on this shelf, and a buttered cream cracker with a strong brew is a real combination rather than a joke, because the salt and the tannin meet in the middle. Drink it without milk if the topping is cheese, since milk and mature cheddar in the same mouthful is a muddle. If you are eating these with p\u00e2t\u00e9 or an oily fish, a mint tea resets the palate between mouthfuls better than a black tea does. Under the grill they hold up better than bread, as the layers stay rigid while cheese melts across them.How water and temperature change it. Humidity is the enemy here, not heat. A laminated cracker loses its flake to damp air long before it loses flavour to age, and an open sleeve in a kitchen with a kettle going will be soft within days while tasting exactly the same, which is why people so often blame the pack date. The fault is moisture and moisture is reversible: three or four minutes in a low oven drives it off and the flake comes back, provided they are cooled flat and completely before they go back in the tin. Heat on its own does the product no harm, since there is no fat coating to bloom and no chocolate to melt, so a warm dry cupboard is a better home than a cool damp one. Keep the sleeve sealed, and if a pack is going to sit open for a week, move the crackers to an airtight tin on day one rather than day six."
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                "content": "Six ideas cover the cheese and pickle this cracker exists for, the buttered tea break, a grilled cheese cracker, a quick mackerel p\u00e2t\u00e9, a soup service and the oven trick that rescues a soft sleeve.\nRecipes, born here first\n\n \n Cheddar, Pickle and a Cream Cracker\n \n How to make Cheddar, Pickle and a Cream Cracker with Jacob's Original Cream Crackers.\n \n 8 min\n 2 plates\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 6 Jacob's cream crackers\n 150g mature cheddar\n Softened butter\n 2 tablespoons pickle or chutney\n A few slices of cucumber or celery\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Soften the butter before it goes anywhere near a cracker. Cold butter drags and the layers give way.\n Butter to the edges rather than the middle, with the cracker flat on a plate.\n Cut the cheddar thick, lay it on, and put the pickle at the edge rather than across the middle.\n Eat within a minute or two. The lamination buys you time, but it does not buy you ten minutes.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: The plate this cracker was designed for. The salt in the base is what makes the cheddar read stronger, not the wheat.\n\n \n Buttered Crackers and a Strong Brew\n \n How to make Buttered Crackers and a Strong Brew with Jacob's Original Cream Crackers.\n \n 5 min\n 1 plate\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 3 Jacob's cream crackers\n Good butter, softened\n 1 bag strong breakfast blend\n 220ml water at a full boil\n Flaky salt, optional\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew the tea four minutes and take it strong. A weak cup has nothing to push against the salt.\n Butter the crackers thickly and finish with a few flakes of salt if you have them.\n Drink with milk if there is no cheese involved, and without if there is.\n Do not dunk. A laminated cracker takes up liquid through every layer at once.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A better eleven o'clock than it sounds on paper. The salt and the tannin meet in the middle, which is why this is a real British habit rather than a hard-up one.\n\n \n Grilled Cheese Crackers\n \n How to make Grilled Cheese Crackers with Jacob's Original Cream Crackers.\n \n 8 min\n 8 pieces\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 8 Jacob's cream crackers\n 120g cheddar, grated\n 1 teaspoon English mustard\n Black pepper and a little paprika\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Mix the grated cheese with the mustard and the pepper so it goes on as a paste rather than a pile.\n Spread it to the very edge of each cracker; bare corners burn before the middle melts.\n Grill on a high shelf for ninety seconds to two minutes, watching the whole time.\n Dust with paprika and eat hot, straight off the tray.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Cheese on toast without the toast, and a firmer base than bread gives you, because the layers stay rigid while the cheese melts across them.\n\n \n Ten Minute Mackerel Pate\n \n How to make Ten Minute Mackerel Pate with Jacob's Original Cream Crackers.\n \n 10 min\n 4 to share\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 12 Jacob's cream crackers\n 200g smoked mackerel fillets\n 150g cream cheese or creme fraiche\n 1 lemon\n Black pepper and horseradish to taste\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Skin the mackerel and check it over for bones, then flake it into a bowl.\n Mash it with the cream cheese, the juice of half the lemon, plenty of pepper and a little horseradish.\n Taste before adding salt. Smoked fish and a salted cracker together are usually salty enough.\n Serve in a bowl with the crackers alongside, so people build their own at the last second.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A starter for four. Keeping the pate in a bowl rather than on the crackers is the difference between crisp and soggy.\n\n \n Soup and Crackers, Done Properly\n \n How to make Soup and Crackers, Done Properly with Jacob's Original Cream Crackers.\n \n 6 min\n 2 bowls\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 6 Jacob's cream crackers\n 2 bowls of tomato, leek or chicken soup\n Butter\n A little grated cheese\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Butter the crackers first. The fat slows the moment the layers give way by a useful margin.\n Scatter grated cheese over two of them and grill briefly if the soup is a plain one.\n Break the rest over the bowl rather than into it, so the pieces sit on the surface.\n Eat promptly, and keep the sleeve away from the steam while you do.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: The bowl of soup that works when there is no bread in the house, and buttering first is the trick that buys the extra minute of crunch.\n\n \n The Four Minute Revival\n \n How to make The Four Minute Revival with Jacob's Original Cream Crackers.\n \n 6 min\n 1 sleeve\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n Any cream crackers that have gone soft\n An oven at 150C\n Three to four minutes\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Spread them in a single layer on a tray, not overlapping.\n Heat at 150C for three to four minutes. You are driving off moisture, not colouring them.\n Cool them flat and completely before eating or storing, or they will soften again on the plate.\n Move the rest of the pack to an airtight tin on day one rather than day six.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: The flake back. A laminated cracker loses its texture to humidity long before it loses flavour to age, which means most soft packs are not actually past it."
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