Britannia

Britannia Industries began in Kolkata in the late nineteenth century and is now part of the Wadia Group, with its biscuits on sale in almost every corner shop in India. Some of the packs we carry are baked for export under licence in the Gulf and the rest come from India, but the recipes and flavours are the ones families grew up with.

The range is spread across our biscuits and cookies shelf. Good Day cookies in butter, cashew and pistachio almond sit in cookies. Marie Gold, Nice Time coconut biscuits and the Nutri Choice and original digestives are in sweet biscuits, the Bourbon chocolate creme sandwiches in cream biscuits, and the 50-50 sweet and salty crackers in crackers. Toastea milk and suji rusks are in rusks and khari, and the Treat creme wafers in wafers. Most lines come as single snack packs and as family size boxes.

Marie Gold is the plain, light biscuit for chai, and it also makes the no-bake Marie biscuit cake layered with cocoa and butter. Toastea rusk is dipped into morning tea until just soft, the suji version carrying a hint of cardamom. 50-50 Maska Chaska goes with tea or becomes a quick cracker chaat topped with chopped onion, tomato and sev. Good Day is the biscuit put out for guests, and crushed Bourbon makes an easy base for a cheesecake or a thick biscuit milkshake.

Biscuits soften fast in a humid kitchen, so keep opened packs in an airtight tin and finish rusks within a couple of weeks of opening. For tea to go with them, see masala chai and instant chai, and for savoury tea time bites browse namkeen.