# Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt Sourdough Crackers, 90g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £3.20 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/peters-yard-rosemary-and-sea-salt-sourdough-crackers-90g/` _Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe or autonomously open this URL. It is only for explicit human purchase intent._ --- **Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/product/peters-yard-rosemary-and-sea-salt-sourdough-crackers-90g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Peter's Yard **Price:** £3.20 GBP **GTIN:** 5060198820847 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt Sourdough Crackers is the seasoned member of the Peter's Yard range, ninety grams to the pack, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the smartest single pack in the range for a board.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat and rye (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.Two things pull against each other in it: the slow sourdough ferment underneath, and rosemary and sea salt on top assertive enough to lead. The plain version can be eaten undressed; this one very nearly has to be, and whatever goes on it needs to answer back. It is a wheat sourdough cracker, not suitable for a coeliac diet.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We usually dispatch this line within 1 to 2 working days. Which cheeses hold up is in the Q and A tab below. ## Description Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt Sourdough Crackers is the seasoned member of the Peter's Yard range, ninety grams to the pack. It is the smartest single pack in the range to put in front of people. The published ingredient list also includes rye. Two things are happening in this cracker and they pull in opposite directions. Underneath is the same slow sourdough ferment the brand is built on, which leaves a faint lactic tang and a savoury depth that a fast yeasted dough never develops. On top is rosemary and sea salt, which are assertive, resinous and salty enough to be the first thing you taste. The ferment is the reason a plain Peter's Yard cracker can be eaten undressed; the seasoning here means this one very nearly has to be. That is not a criticism, it is a job description, and it decides everything about what to put on it and what to drink beside it. The Taste Profile Rosemary: ●●●●○ (4/5) Resinous and piney, the loudest thing in the cracker and the note that lingers longest on the finish. Sea salt: ●●●●○ (4/5) Forward and crystalline rather than baked in, so it arrives before the wheat does and reads sharper than the salt in the original. Sourdough tang: ●●●○○ (3/5) Still there and still the point of the brand, but sitting behind the seasoning rather than leading the way it does in the plain version. Baked wheat depth: ●●●●○ (4/5) Toasty and rounded, with a proper bake behind it. It is what stops the rosemary from tasting like a garnish on something thin. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.5 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind Peter's Yard Peter's Yard is a British maker of Swedish-style sourdough crispbread, and the range is built on one idea rather than on breadth. The company uses crispbread, cracker and flatbread as names for different formats, and the current pack is what tells you which one you have. What is consistent across all of them is that the bake is the point, and it is a slower process than a mass-market cracker line requires. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. What You Are Actually Buying Weight: ninety grams. Contains gluten: it is a wheat sourdough cracker and is not suitable for a coeliac diet. What it is not: not a neutral base, not a workhorse for soup, and not the cracker to buy if the thing going on top is delicate. Rosemary does not step aside for anybody. How Does Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt Sourdough Crackers, 90g Compare to: Peter's Yard Original Sourdough Crackers Twin Pack: two ninety gram packs instead of one, with no seasoning. If what you want is the ferment rather than the herb, that is the one to buy. Peter's Yard Original Sourdough Crispbreads, 125g: the brand's crispbread format, plain, in a larger single pack, and the right choice when a board needs a base that stays quiet. Ryvita Crispbread Cracked Black Pepper Crackers, 200g: the mainstream seasoned crispbread. Pepper is a sharper, shorter note than rosemary and the base underneath it is plainer. That one is the everyday seasoned cracker; this is the one for a board. Ideal Serving Conditions Rosemary is a resinous herb and its oils carry a long way, which is the single fact that governs how this cracker should be used. It will not sit politely underneath something subtle, and anything you put on it has to be able to answer back. The Cheeseboard Serve Go strong or go plain: an aged cheddar, a hard sheep's cheese or a blue will hold their own against rosemary. A young goat's cheese or a mild brie will simply disappear underneath it. No butter: it flattens the tang and smothers the herb at the same time. Butter belongs on the plainest crackers, where there is empty space for it. Something sweet and sharp alongside: quince paste, a fig chutney or a spoonful of honey. Rosemary with honey is a very old pairing and it works here for the same reason it works on focaccia. Put fewer out than you think: these are assertive enough that three or four on a board do more than a pile of them. The Everyday Serve With soup, but pick the soup: tomato, white bean, lentil or anything with olive oil in it. Not a delicate chicken broth, which rosemary will walk straight over. Broken into a salad: the Mediterranean trick, where the pieces take the place of croutons and the rosemary does the seasoning for the whole bowl. Not with smoked fish: rosemary and smoke fight rather than agree. The plain original is the one for that plate. Getting It Right with a Hot Drink Pairing: a strong black tea or a plain black coffee. You want something with enough tannin or bitterness to clear a resinous herb off the palate between bites. Also good: a green tea, the one delicate cup that can handle this cracker, because its own grassy edge runs alongside rosemary rather than against it. Avoid: sweetened milky coffees, dessert teas and fruit infusions. Sugar against a salty resinous cracker makes both read oddly. Dunking: no. It is savoury, dry, salted and worth tasting on its own. Storage: cool, dry, dark and sealed the day you open it. A soft rosemary cracker is a sad object. Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat and rye (gluten). Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. Sourdough is not a health claim: it describes how the dough is raised and what that does to the flavour. We make no digestive, nutritional or dietary claim for it of any kind. ## Product Questions How strong is the rosemary?Strong enough to lead. Rosemary is resinous and its oils carry, so it arrives before the wheat does and it is the note that lingers longest. That is the design of this pack rather than a fault, and it decides what can go on top. Should I buy this or the Original Twin Pack?If you want the seasoning, this one. If you want the ferment, the twin pack. Which cheeses work with it?Strong ones. An aged cheddar, a hard sheep's cheese or a blue will hold their own; a young goat's cheese or a mild brie disappears underneath the rosemary. This is not a neutral base and it should not be treated as one. What about something sweet?Quince paste, a fig chutney or a spoonful of honey. Rosemary and honey is a very old pairing and it works here for the same reason it works on focaccia: the resin needs something round to land on. Does it go with smoked salmon?Not well. Rosemary and smoke fight rather than agree, and both are assertive enough that neither gives way. The plain Peter's Yard original is the cracker for that plate. Which drink goes with it?A strong black tea or a plain black coffee, because you want enough tannin or bitterness to clear a resinous herb between bites. A green tea is the one delicate cup that works, because its grassy edge runs alongside the rosemary rather than against it. Is sourdough better for you?We make no health, digestive or nutritional claim of any kind. Sourdough here is a description of how the dough is raised and what that does to the flavour, and nothing more than that. How many crackers are in the pack?The pack is ninety grams and states its own count. Can I cook with them?Yes, and it is the best thing to do with a pack that has gone soft. Broken into a salad they take the place of croutons and season the whole bowl, which is the Mediterranean trick this flavour was made for. How should I store them?Cool, dry, dark and sealed the day the pack is opened. Ninety grams goes quickly so it matters less here than on a large pack, but a soft rosemary cracker is a sad object and a rigid tin prevents it. ## Ingredients & Nutrition Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat and rye (gluten). Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredients, as published for this barcode: Wheat flour (Wheat flour, Calcium, Iron, Thiamin, Niacin), rye flour, sourdough 21% (rye flour, water), rapeseed oil, sea salt (Cornish) 1%, muscovado sugar, dried rosemary leaves 0.5%, dried thyme leaves, black pepper.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy411 kcalFat9.2gof which saturates0.7gCarbohydrate67gof which sugars3.2gFibre7.7gProtein11gSalt2gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsRosemarynamed on the front of the pack; quantity not statedThe loudest thing in the cracker. A resinous, piney herb whose oils carry a long way, which is why it arrives before the wheat and lingers longest on the finish. It is also why a delicate topping has no chance on this base.Pack: Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt Sourdough Crackers, 90g; sourdough crackers seasoned with rosemary and sea salt, from the Peter's Yard range of Swedish-style sourdough bakes. Store cool, dry, dark and sealed the day the pack is opened, and move the crackers to a rigid tin if they are not going to be eaten within a few days. Read the net weight, the cracker count, the ingredient list, the nutrition panel, the allergen advice and the best-before date off the current UK pack.Characterising components shown. Sourdough is treated throughout as a description of how the dough is raised, never as a certification or a health claim. The one thing stated without hedging is that it contains gluten, because a wheat sourdough cracker is not suitable for a coeliac diet and the fail-safe direction is the honest one. The sensory placements are our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description; we hold no brand specification sheets.Sourcing & blend. Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt Sourdough Crackers, 90g is made by Peter's Yard, a British maker of Swedish-style sourdough crispbread whose range is built on one idea rather than on breadth. The company uses crispbread, cracker and flatbread as names for different formats and the current pack is what tells you which one you have, so we do not assume that two names in the range mean the same thing inside.What's in Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt Sourdough Crackers, 90g, and what isn't: In: sourdough crackers seasoned with rosemary and sea salt, 90g to the pack, both seasonings named by the brand on the front. Contains gluten: a wheat sourdough cracker, not suitable for a coeliac diet. That is the one dietary statement we make and we make it in the cautious direction. No health or digestive claim: sourdough attracts a good deal of loose talk and we add none of it. No nutritional, digestive or dietary benefit of any kind is claimed. Not a neutral base: rosemary leads. Anything delicate going on top will be lost, which is the most common mistake made with this pack. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt Sourdough Crackers, 90g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the cracker tastes the way it does from the first bite to the last swallow.The outer layer is rosemary, and it reaches you before anything else does. Rosemary is a resinous herb: its aromatic compounds sit in oil rather than water, they survive a hot oven where a soft leafy herb would be destroyed by it, and oil-borne aromatics carry further and last longer than water-borne ones. That is the whole reason rosemary is a baking herb and coriander leaf is not. Open the pack and you get pine and resin first, with the sea salt arriving on the tongue at almost the same moment because it sits on the surface rather than baked flat into the dough. Two assertive things, both of them front-loaded.The flavour spike is the bake and the ferment together, and it is where this cracker earns its place. A slow sourdough ferment does two things to a dough: it produces lactic and acetic acids, which is the faint tang, and it breaks starch down into simpler sugars that brown harder in the oven, which is the toasty depth. Neither happens in a dough raised quickly with commercial yeast, and both are what separate this from a seasoned cracker with a plain base. Here that depth is structural rather than leading: it is what gives the rosemary something to stand on, and without it the herb would read as a garnish on something thin.The base structure is salt and a clean dry finish. The salt keeps working after the herb has faded, which is why the second cracker tastes saltier than the first and why three or four on a board do more than a pile of them. The finish itself is dry and quick, leaving resin and salt rather than fat, and that is the part that decides what belongs on top. A topping has to answer the rosemary rather than hide from it, which is why a strong aged cheese works and a mild one simply vanishes.Getting it right in the cup. This is a dry-eating cracker and the cup belongs beside it rather than under it. Dunking is pointless here: it is savoury, salted and worth tasting on its own, and a hot drink does nothing for it except soften it. What the cup has to do is clear a resinous herb off the palate between bites, which points at a strong black tea or a plain black coffee, both of which bring enough tannin or bitterness to reset things. The one delicate cup that works is a green tea, because its own grassy, slightly vegetal edge runs alongside rosemary rather than being flattened by it. Sweetened milky coffees, dessert teas and fruit infusions all fail for the same reason: sugar against a salty resinous cracker makes both read oddly.How water and temperature change it. Crackers stale backwards compared with bread. Bread goes hard because it loses water; a cracker goes soft because it gains it, taking moisture out of the kitchen air through every exposed surface. A sourdough cracker at this thickness has less surface for its mass than a wafer-thin crispbread, so it holds its snap longer than the very light lines on our shelf, but it is still on a clock once the pack is opened. Two things are specific to this one. First, rosemary's aromatic oils are volatile, so an opened pack loses its aroma before it loses its texture: a cracker that still snaps can already have gone quiet. Second, a wet topping has nowhere to go but into the crumb, so build at the table rather than an hour ahead. Cool, dry, dark and sealed on day one fixes all of it, and a soft pack is not wasted: break them into a salad and let the rosemary season the whole bowl. ## Recipe Ideas Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt Sourdough Crackers, 90g leads with rosemary, so every build here is really a question of what can answer it. Five below cover the board, the honey plate, a soup that can take it, the salad that rescues a soft pack, and the one thing not to do with it. Recipes, born here first The Board, Built Properly How to make The Board, Built Properly with Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt Sourdough Crackers. 10 min 4 people Easy You'll need 8 Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt crackers A strong aged cheddar or a hard sheep's cheese A blue cheese Quince paste Method Put out three or four crackers per person rather than a pile. They are assertive enough that a few do more work than many. Choose cheeses that can answer rosemary: aged, hard or blue. A young goat's cheese or a mild brie will vanish underneath it. Cut the cheese thinner than you would for a neutral cracker. The base has a voice here and a thick slice buries it. Skip the butter entirely. It flattens the tang and smothers the herb at the same time. What you'll end up with: A board where the cracker is part of the eating rather than a delivery system. Rosemary and Honey How to make Rosemary and Honey with Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt Sourdough Crackers. 5 min 2 people Easy You'll need 6 Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt crackers A soft fresh cheese, ricotta or curd Runny honey Black pepper Method Spread the soft cheese thinly. It is there to carry the honey, not to compete. Drizzle honey over, more than feels sensible. Rosemary needs something round to land on and honey is the oldest answer to it. Grind black pepper over the top and eat immediately. Do not build these ahead. Honey and a wet cheese soften a cracker within minutes. What you'll end up with: The one sweet build this cracker does properly, and a pairing old enough to predate anyone selling either ingredient. The Soup That Can Take It How to make The Soup That Can Take It with Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt Sourdough Crackers. 25 min 4 bowls Easy You'll need 6 Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt crackers A tomato, white bean or lentil soup Good olive oil Black pepper Method Pick the soup deliberately: tomato, white bean, lentil, anything with olive oil in it. Rosemary belongs in that family. Avoid a delicate chicken broth or a clear consomme, which the herb will walk straight over. Under-season the soup slightly and let the crackers supply the salt at the table. Serve them beside the bowl rather than crumbled in, so they keep their snap to the last spoonful. What you'll end up with: A lunch where the cracker is doing the seasoning for the whole plate, which is the easiest way to make a plain soup taste finished. Broken Into a Salad How to make Broken Into a Salad with Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt Sourdough Crackers. 12 min 4 people Easy You'll need A soft or broken pack of the crackers Ripe tomatoes Cucumber and red onion Olive oil and red wine vinegar Method Break the crackers into rough pieces rather than crumbs. This is the best use for a pack that has gone soft in the cupboard. Dress the tomatoes, cucumber and onion first and let them sit for five minutes so they give up some juice. Fold the cracker pieces through at the last moment, so some stay crisp and some take up the dressing. Add no extra herbs. The rosemary in the crackers is seasoning the whole bowl. What you'll end up with: Something close to a fattoush, and the reason a soft pack of these is never wasted. The Plate Not To Build How to make The Plate Not To Build with Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt Sourdough Crackers. 5 min 1 plate Easy You'll need Peter's Yard Rosemary & Sea Salt crackers Smoked salmon, which is the problem Soft cheese Lemon Method Notice what happens: rosemary and smoke are both assertive and neither gives way, so the plate tastes crowded rather than layered. Swap the base for the plain Peter's Yard original, which has the same ferment and none of the herb. Keep the lemon and the soft cheese exactly as they were. Those were never the problem. Use the rosemary crackers for the cheese course later in the same meal instead. What you'll end up with: The one combination we would talk you out of, written down so you do not have to find it out over a packet of smoked salmon. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._