Chocolate Olivers - Dark Choc Biscuits in Gift Tin by Huntley & Palmers

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Barclays will shut at least another 77 bank branches throughout 2024 and 2025 after announcing 20 more closures. Sign up for the Mirror's daily newsletter to get all the latest news on the Queen, Charles, Kate, Wills, Meghan, Harry and the rest of The Firm. A Bath Oliver is a hard, dry biscuit or cracker [1] made from flour, butter, yeast and milk; often eaten with cheese. Rich, dark chocolate, generously enrobed around a crisp slow-baked biscuit Chocolate Olivers are the ultimate biscuit indulgence, made using a patented recipe from the 1930’s, which includes hops and malt, with the thickest, richest dark chocolate. INGREDIENTS: GB: chocolate 70% (minimum 52% cocoa solids, contains sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, emulsifier: soya lecithin, flavouring), wheat flour, salted butter, palm oil, glucose syrup, malt extract, skimmed milk powder, dried yeast, dried hops.

Huntley and Palmers, famous purveyors of fine biscuits who supplied Captain Scott on his expedition to the South Pole, have patented their recipe for these Chocolate Olivers way back in the 1930's. Both are possible, as he arrived in Bath in 1728, but the exact date at which inspiration struck the esteemed doctor is unclear. Covered thickly in really dark chocolate, this is the most moreish, delectable biscuit, to surpass all others.

While many royal fans have focused on the adorable new picture of The Queen with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, there is something else that has attracted a great deal of attention. A gold medal similar to the one shown here, also with the date 1753, features on the cylindrical 'Chocolate Oliver' tin of 1981. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you.

GB: chocolate 70% (minimum 52% cocoa solids, contains sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, emulsifier: soya lecithin, flavouring), wheat flour, salted butter, palm oil, glucose syrup, malt extract, skimmed milk powder, dried yeast, dried hops. Wheat flour, butter oil, vegetable oil, salt, whole milk powder, malt extract, raising agent (ammonium bicarbonate), yeast, hops.Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . Below we list the branches disappearing and what the alternatives are if you still want face-to-face banking. To complicate matters the Fortt's 'Wheaten Malt Biscuits' tin, from some time after 1936, also in the Reading Museum Collection, gives the date 1735.