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Bath Oliver
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A large, hard, pale unsweetened biscuit, invented by Dr William Oliver (1695–1764), a leading physician in Bath who believed that his patients were overeating and needed something nutritious but not rich. On his deathbed he gave his coachman the recipe, £100 and ten sacks of the finest flour. The coachman made a fortune and the biscuit (baked now by Huntley & Palmers at Aintree, near Liverpool) remains to this day the favourite of a few to accompany cheese.
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