Britannia Industries Limited is an Indian company specialised in food industry, part of the Wadia Group headed by Nusli Wadia. Founded in 1892 and headquartered in Kolkata, it is one of India's oldest existing companies and best known for its biscuit products.
Britain's favourite snack began life in the ancient world when slices of bread were dried to store them. The Romans called these rusks panis bicoctus (bread twice-baked), and so the original method for making biscuits is embedded in their name.
Parle-G biscuits were earlier called 'Parle Gluco' Biscuits until the 1980s. The "G" in the name Parle-G originally stood for "Glucose", though a later brand slogan also stated "G for Genius".
1. Parle Biscuits – World's Largest Selling Biscuit Brand. Parle-G is a childhood memory of many Indians. Parle Products Private Limited owns the largest and most consumed biscuit brand in India.
Otherwise known as the “world's most expensive cookie,” going for $1,000 when it was released in 2019 by Sofia Demetriou, the owner of Duchess Cookies in New York City.
Britain is the country with the most biscuit consumers in the world.
Bake your way around the world with these traditional biscuit recipes originating from Italy, Germany, Finland, Greece and Australia.
Aberffraw biscuits are Welsh shortbread pressed with the shape of a scallop shell, and are said to be Britain's oldest biscuit! The Chocolate Aberffraw Biscuits are made with just good quality butter, flour, sugar and dark chocolate chips, resulting in a rich shortbread with heavy cocoa flavour.
Biscuit (UK) / Cookie (US)
In the US, cookies are flat, round snacks made of sweet dough. In the UK, these are generally called biscuits, although people do call the bigger, softer kind cookies, too.
The biscuit we're talking about is Grantham Gingerbread. Born in the 1740s, it's England's oldest commercially traded biscuit.
Shortbread may have been made as early as the 12th Century, however its invention is often attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots in the 16th Century.
In 1891, the Cadbury brothers filed a patent for a chocolate-coated biscuit.
McVitie & Price's first major biscuit was the McVitie's digestive, created in 1892 by a new young employee at the company named Alexander Grant. The biscuit was given its name because it was thought that its high baking soda content served as an aid to food digestion.
According to a study by CEO World Magazine, the United States and the United Kingdom are the most fast-food-obsessed countries in the world. France and Sweden ranked third and fourth spots, followed by Austria, Mexico, and South Korea.
Take a look at these great little recipe cards… It's official: shortbread is the nation's favourite biscuit.
People in France tend to spend the most time eating and drinking per day on average at 2 hours and 13 minutes. Their neighbors in Italy and Spain aren't too far behind, averaging more than two hours per day.
In 1865 he opened his first factory in Newcastle and now Arnott's sells more than 350 million packets of biscuits a year, and there are more than 200 varieties. The bestsellers are Jatz - 16 million boxes a year - Barbecue Shapes and Tim Tams.
What are different types of biscuits? Biscuits broadly fall into four categories, distinguished by their recipes and biscuit baking process: crackers, hard sweet biscuits, short dough biscuits, cookies (including filled cookies).
In Australia, "biscuits" are what Americans call "cookies," and these traditional treats date back to World War I. It's said that wives and mothers of soldiers in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps—abbreviated to "Anzac"—baked these treats to send to their men overseas.
An iconic Aussie treat, Arnott's Tim Tam Original is a mouth-watering combination of crunchy biscuit, luscious cream centre, wrapped in a smooth milk chocolate coating . It's easy to see why Tim Tam is Australia's most-loved chocolate biscuit.