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Great biscuits OF BRITAIN

Whether we’re dipping them in a cuppa or crunching them at teatime, we love our biscuits in Britain, and eat around 420,000 tons of them each year! So here we’re touring the country to celebrate some of our favourite traditional and regional varieties – prepare to feel peckish…

originated in the 12th century. It developed from ‘biscuit bread’

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