Jacob's Savoury Favourites Crackers Assortment, 200g
Treat the first box as a trial. An assortment earns its place before a household knows what it actually reaches for, and by the time this one is empty you will have found out, which usually means the sensible next purchase is a single pack of one kind rather than another mixture. That is not a mark against it. Knowing is worth the box. Recipes differ inside the one carton and so do their allergens, so keep the outer box out and read it rather than tipping everything into a tin.
Jacob's Savoury Favourites Crackers Assortment, in brief.
Jacob's Savoury Favourites Crackers Assortment is a mixed box of savoury crackers rather than a pack of one kind, 200g, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the everyday answer to the cheeseboard question.
What is in it is printed on the pack and we name nothing. What is worth knowing is that several recipes in one sleeve go stale at different rates, so a mixed box gets worse in patches: eat the thin ones first. Read the allergen advice carefully, because more recipes means more allergens in one place.
What is actually in it is printed on the pack. What is worth explaining instead is how a mixed box behaves differently from a single pack, because almost nobody thinks about it until the board is already out and half the crackers have gone soft while the others have not.
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. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind Jacob's
Jacob's is one of the familiar names on the British cracker shelf, best known for the cream cracker, and it makes a broad enough range that an assortment from this house genuinely covers different eating experiences rather than the same cracker in different shapes.
No contents list, no ingredient breakdown, no nutrition panel, no allergen statement and no cracker count, so nothing is named on this page, no percentages appear and no count is quoted. The current pack carries all of it.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Weight: two hundred grams.
- Savoury throughout: no sweet item anywhere, which is the single reason to choose a savoury assortment over a general biscuit tin for a cheeseboard.
- A decision you do not have to make: the honest appeal of an assortment. You do not have to know in advance which cracker each guest wants under which cheese.
- What it is not: not a free-from line, not a premium selection box, and not individually wrapped. Everything in it shares a pack, which matters for storage.
Ideal Serving Conditions
A mixed box has one problem a single pack does not, and it is worth knowing before you open it: several different recipes in one sleeve go stale at several different rates.
The Board
- Match the cracker to the cheese: the plainer, drier ones under a strong blue or a mature cheddar; anything seasoned with a milder cheese that will not be shouted over.
- Put them out last: ten minutes on a board in a warm room takes the edge off the crispness, and the thinnest crackers in the box go first.
- Top at the table: a savoury cracker starts softening the moment something moist sits on it, so build each one as you eat it.
- Do not ration them by kind: people take what they want from an assortment and that is the point of it.
The Storage Rules
- Airtight on day one: into a tin rather than the sleeve, and this matters more for a mixed box than for a single pack.
- The uneven staling problem: a thin cracker and a thick one in the same tin do not last the same length of time, so the box gets worse in patches rather than all at once. Eat the thin ones first.
- Away from the kettle: the air above a kettle is the most humid in the house and is where most crackers go soft.
- They can be brought back: five minutes in a low oven at about 150C and a few minutes cooling on a rack restores the snap. With a mixed box, watch it, because the thin ones colour before the thick ones are warm.
Getting It Right with a Hot Drink
- Pairing: a strong black tea or a plain black coffee, both of which stay out of the way of whatever is on the board.
- Avoid: sweet and fruit infusions. They fight a savoury cracker and they fight cheese harder still.
- Dunking: no. There is nothing in a savoury cracker to survive it.
- Best with: a cheeseboard, a soup, a pate, or a lunch where bread would be too much.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Jacob's Savoury Favourites Crackers Assortment, 200g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Jacob's
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
This is a mixed savoury box built to carry cheese, so the builds below are about the board, the uneven staling and using the range in the pack. The cards are the cheeseboard, the tin and the thin-ones-first rule, the two-batch oven refresh, a soup side, a canape plate, and a crumb from what is left.
Made with this tea
The Cheeseboard
How to match a mixed box to the cheeses on the board.
- Jacob's Savoury Favourites Crackers Assortment
- A strong blue, a mature cheddar and something mild
- Grapes or a firm chutney
- Bring the cheese to room temperature an hour before serving. The crackers stay in the tin.
- Put the plainest crackers under the strongest cheeses, where their job is to carry rather than contribute.
- Keep anything seasoned for the mild cheese that will not be shouted over.
- Add the crackers last, immediately before the board goes on the table.
What you'll end up with: A board where every cracker is under the cheese it suits.
The Tin, and the Thin Ones First
How to stop a mixed box going off in patches.
- The opened box
- An airtight tin
- Decant the whole box on the day you open it. The sleeve is not airtight.
- Eat the thinnest crackers first. They have the most surface and the least body.
- Store in a cool dry cupboard, and not on the shelf beside the kettle.
- Several recipes in one sleeve decline in sequence rather than together, which is why a box seems to go off in patches.
What you'll end up with: A box where the last cracker is as good as the first.
The Two-Batch Oven Refresh
How to refresh a mixed box without burning half of it.
- Softened crackers
- An oven at 150C
- A cooling rack
- Sort them into thin and thick before you start.
- Bake the thick ones five minutes at about 150C, the thin ones three.
- Cool on a rack, not in the tin. Trapped steam goes straight back in.
- In one batch the thin ones colour before the thick ones are warm through.
What you'll end up with: A whole box back, rather than half of it burnt.
Alongside a Bowl of Soup
How to use them where bread would be too much.
- 4 to 6 crackers, the thicker ones
- A bowl of soup
- Salted butter
- Pick the thicker crackers out of the box for this. The thin ones cannot take butter.
- Butter them generously and serve beside the bowl.
- Do not crumble them in. They soften instantly and turn the soup to paste.
- An assortment is useful here precisely because you can choose the right one for the job.
What you'll end up with: A lighter lunch than bread and butter, with more texture.
A Canape Plate From One Box
How to get variety on a plate without buying three packs.
- 12 crackers, mixed kinds
- Cream cheese and a hard cheese
- Smoked salmon, or roasted peppers
- Chives and black pepper
- Spread a layer of soft cheese first. Fat is a barrier and slows the moisture reaching the cracker.
- Vary the topping by the cracker, putting the wetter ones on the thicker biscuits.
- Build them no more than ten minutes before serving.
- A mixed box gives you a varied plate from one pack, which is the practical case for buying one.
What you'll end up with: A dozen canapes that look like three packs went into them.
The Mixed Crumb
How to use the odds and ends at the bottom of the tin.
- 80g broken crackers, whatever is left
- 50g grated cheddar
- 30g melted butter
- Thyme and black pepper
- Crush everything together to a coarse crumb rather than a powder.
- Taste before you season. A mixed crumb from a savoury box is already salted, and unevenly.
- Mix with the cheese, butter, thyme and pepper and scatter over a gratin.
- Bake at 190C fan for fifteen minutes, checking at ten.
What you'll end up with: A well-browned topping with more character than a single-cracker crumb.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 457 kcal |
| Fat | 16.9g |
| of which saturates | 7.6g |
| Carbohydrate | 65.4g |
| of which sugars | 2.3g |
| Fibre | 3.6g |
| Protein | 9.0g |
| Salt | 1.7g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this product it contains wheat and barley (gluten) and sesame. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this product: Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium, Niacin, Iron, Folic Acid, Thiamin), Palm Oil (Certified Sustainable), Barley and Barley Malt Extract, Salt, Glucose Syrup, Raising Agents (Ammonium Bicarbonate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Poppy Seeds, Sesame Seeds, Dried Yeast, Sugar, Black Pepper, Malted Barley Flour, Emulsifier (E472e), Yeast, Wheat Starch.
Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Sweet items | None, by design | A savoury assortment has nothing sweet in it to get in a cheese's way, which is exactly what a general biscuit tin gets wrong on a cheeseboard. |
| Staling behaviour | Uneven across the box | Several recipes in one sleeve go stale at several different rates, so the box gets worse in patches rather than all at once. Eat the thin ones first. |
| Pack format | 200g; cracker count printed on the current pack | Loose in a pack rather than individually wrapped, so everything in it shares the same air once the sleeve is open. No count and no price per cracker is quoted here. |
Pack: Jacob's Savoury Favourites Crackers Assortment, 200g; a mixed box of savoury crackers for a cheeseboard. Store cool, dark and airtight, and decant into a tin the day you open it, which matters more for a mixed box than for a single pack because the contents stale unevenly. Read the contents, the cracker count, the ingredient list, the allergen advice, the gluten statement, the barcode and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
Characterising components shown. The sensory placements describe how a savoury assortment behaves rather than how any one cracker in this box tastes, and they are our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description; we have held no tastings and hold no brand specification sheets.
Sourcing & blend. Jacob's Savoury Favourites Crackers Assortment, 200g carries the Jacob's name, one of the familiar names on the British cracker shelf and best known for the cream cracker. The house makes a broad enough range that an assortment from it genuinely covers different eating experiences rather than the same cracker in different shapes, which is not true of every selection box on this shelf.
What's in Jacob's Savoury Favourites Crackers Assortment, 200g, and what isn't:
- In: two hundred grams of assorted savoury crackers, the contents printed on the box.
- No sweet item: that is the design of a savoury assortment and the reason to choose one for a cheeseboard over a general biscuit tin.
- No health or diet claim: we claim no benefit of any kind and quote no calorie, fat, salt or fibre figure for anything in the box.
- Allergen note: several recipes sit in one box, so a precautionary statement may apply to some items and not to others. Read the latest pack rather than relying on this page.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Jacob's Savoury Favourites Crackers Assortment, 200g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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