It was the decision of Peek Frean & Co., biscuit manufacturers, from Bermondsey, London, to expand the confectionery side of their successful biscuit manufacturing business which led to the establishment of Meltis Limited, one of Bedfords best known employers. The official Peek Freans website is no help it's on its last limbs, and dead links abound. This article traces something of the Companys history and its impact on Bedford. When I reached out for comment to Peek Freans' American distributor, Mondelez, the company was unable to confirm when Peek Freans was discontinued within the United States. The cookies have since been discontinued in the States for years now, though I’ve been unable to confirm exactly for how long. Celebrated lines invented by Peek Freans include the Garibaldi (1861), Marie (1875), Chocolate Table (the first chocolate coated biscuit in 1899) and the. Once my mother and I had made the discovery of its beef fat shortening, though, we were done. Its flavor was rich, but nondescript enough not to pollute the tea. Peek Freans is the name of a former biscuit -making company based in Bermondsey, London, which is now a global brand of biscuits and related confectionery owned by various food businesses. If we’re talking texture, it wasn’t so brittle that it would disintegrate before your eyes upon contact with tea. Peek Freans' Shortcake was the only cookie that met my family's narrow, hyper-specific parameters for a tea cookie. Oreos somehow taste even better when they have some moisture, but dunking one in your tea is a recipe for disaster it will both muddy your tea and leave a pile of soot in your cup. They break so hastily that they travel to the bottom of your cup, forcing you to scoop them out with a spoon. EBM started producing the countrys largest range of hygienic and healthy biscuits under the famous trademark of the Peek Freans Pied Piper 35 years ago. Digestive biscuits, bland and beige, are easy victims.
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