A tour of The Biscuit Factory in Newcastle | Newcastle Chronicle

Today we take you on a wonderful tour of a great local biscuit factory, the Biscuiterie H. Rault. The delicious biscuits produced in this factory have a long and interesting history: around 1735, Mahé de La Bourdonnais brought cassava, a tuber of South American origin, into Mauritius. At the time, sugar estates were growing it and using it mainly for cattle feed. In 1868, Hilarion Rault, developed a recipe for cassava biscuits. Family members found them to be delicious and encouraged him to mark