Purity Factories Limited is a

food processing Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms. Food processing includes many forms of processing foods, from grinding grain to make raw flour to home cooking to complex industr ...

company based in St. John's,

Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...

. Founded in 1924 by

C. C. Pratt Calvert Coates Pratt Order of the British Empire, OBE (October 6, 1888 – November 13, 1963) was a Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland businessman and a Senate of Canada, Canadian Senator. He was president of Purity Factories, a Newfoundland ...

, A. E. Hickman, and W. R. Goobie, Purity is known for its

cream cracker Cream cracker is a flat, usually square, savoury biscuit. The name "cream crackers" refers to the method in which the mixture is creamed during manufacture. The cream cracker is traditionally prepared using fermented dough. They are made from wh ...

s, Peppermint Nobs, Candy Kisses, and flavoured

syrup In cooking, a syrup (less commonly sirup; from ar, شراب; , beverage, wine and la, sirupus) is a condiment that is a thick, viscous liquid consisting primarily of a solution of sugar in water, containing a large amount of dissolved suga ...

s. The company also makes several varieties of

hard bread Hardtack (or hard tack) is a simple type of dense biscuit or cracker made from flour, water, and sometimes salt. Hardtack is inexpensive and long-lasting. It is used for sustenance in the absence of perishable foods, commonly during long sea vo ...

(hardtack), a staple of the Newfoundland diet, formerly used by fishermen as a bread substitute and as an ingredient in

fish and brewis Fish and brewis (pronounced "brews") is a traditional Newfoundland meal consisting of cod and hard bread or hard tack. With the abundance of cod around the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador it became synonymous with many Newfoundland househol ...

. Purity also produces jams, including one containing partridgeberries (called lingonberries elsewhere).

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