![]() The brothers took a sweet leap of faith and began branching out into the ‘fancy’ biscuit market, within one year producing fifteen different varieties, and soon after that, commenced exporting to the U.K. ![]() Robert and William Jacob were brothers who inherited their father’s Waterford-based bakery business, which at the time was making bread, barm and ship biscuits (which were described as boringly hard and sugarless.) The tour was presented by curator Wendy Williams and kicked off with some details on how the famous Irish biscuiteers were formed back in 1850. September and October saw an interesting exhibition on the history of Jacob’s biscuit factory in residence at Pearse Street library. Ailish Byrne, daughter of Jacob’s worker Florence O’Connor at the exhibition. ![]()
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