Peter’s Yard Rye & Charcoal Sourdough Crackers

Description

Peter’s Yard Rye & Charcoal Sourdough Crackers

The Crackers Everyone Notices

If you want a cracker that makes your cheeseboard look rather fabulous, these are the ones.

Peter’s Yard Rye & Charcoal Sourdough Crackers are thin, crisp and dramatically dark thanks to the addition of activated charcoal. Put them alongside a pale, creamy cheese and they look particularly striking — which is probably why they’re so often the first crackers people notice.

Made with slowly fermented sourdough and rye flour, they have a gentle tang and an earthy, savoury flavour. The charcoal is much more noticeable to the eye than it is on the palate, so despite their dramatic appearance, these aren’t going to compete with your cheese.

And that’s exactly what you want.

What Cheese Goes with Rye & Charcoal Crackers?

The darker colour makes almost any cheese look good, but there are a few combinations I particularly like.

• Crumbly British cheese – Yorkshire Wensleydale PGI or Mrs Kirkham’s Lancashire works brilliantly. The fresh, milky cheese contrasts with both the earthy rye flavour and that dark cracker.
• Soft cheese – A creamy Brie against a charcoal cracker looks fantastic and gives you that lovely soft-cheese/crisp-cracker contrast too.
• Goat’s cheese – Something pale and creamy such as Cricket St Thomas Goat is another particularly good-looking combination.
• Blue cheese – A piece of Blue Stilton PDO certainly has enough flavour to hold its own alongside the rye and sourdough.

Not Just for the Cheeseboard

These are also brilliant for canapés.

The black cracker makes a great backdrop for soft cheese topped with a little fig or caramelised onion chutney, and suddenly something very simple looks as though you’ve made considerably more effort than you actually have.

Always useful when people are coming round.

Jen’s note: I’ll admit that a large part of the appeal of these crackers is how good they look. Put a piece of pale cheese on top of that black cracker and it immediately looks rather special. Thankfully they taste good too — otherwise we’d just be buying edible cheeseboard decorations.

Buying Peter’s Yard Rye & Charcoal Sourdough Crackers

• £3.30

Ingredients (Allergens are listed in capitals)

WHEAT flour (WHEAT flour, calcium, iron, niacin, thiamin) RYE flour 21%, sourdough 21% (RYE flour, water), rapeseed oil, muscovado sugar, charcoal 2%, sea salt

May contain traces of MILK

Made with care in a bakery that handles NUTS and SESAME