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Cracker
Crackers are thin, crisp baked goods from grain flours—wheat, rye, rice, or mixed—used with cheese, dips, and soups. Styles range from soda crackers and water biscuits to seeded crispbreads and flavoured snack crackers. Lamination, docking, and leavening create snap and flake. They extend bread-cupboard grains into long-shelf savoury biscuits.
Also known as: Cracker / Water Biscuit, Cracker, Knäckebröd, Crackers / Taralli adjacent
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Ship's biscuit and early cracker bakeries supplied long-keeping wheat crackers for travel and trade.
Water biscuits and cream crackers became British tea-time and cheese accompaniments.
Industrial cracker lines made packaged soda crackers a global pantry staple.
Seeded, wholegrain, and gluten-free crackers expanded specialty savoury biscuit markets.