BORWICK'S
Baking Powder
Perfected in an attic over eleven years. First sold in 1842. Still on the same label, still keeping British baking as light as air — nearly two centuries on.
- As light as air
- Good cooks use Borwick's
- The best in the world
- None genuine without this signature
- Six gold medals
Nearly two centuries of rise
A formula and an attic
George Borwick marries Jane Hudson, and her father passes the couple a formula for a raising agent. In an attic workshop, George and Jane spend the…
The world's first baking powder goes on sale
Borwick's Baking Powder is sold commercially for the first time — the first baking powder brand in the world. Every tin since has carried the same …
600,000 packets a week
Borwick's becomes the best-selling baking powder in the world, moving six hundred thousand packets every week. Six gold medals earned at internatio…
A new chapter with Hassani Group
Hassani Group acquires Borwick's, alongside Green's, bringing the world's first baking powder into its family of heritage food brands and carrying …
The tin that never
needed to change
Cream paper, black ink, and George Borwick's own signature — the label on today's Borwick's is essentially the one your great-grandmother reached for. Inside, the same reliable rise that made it the best-selling baking powder in the world.
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Recipes from nearly two hundred years of British baking — including originals from our own wartime advertisements.
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