primarily for the flour confectionery trade rather than for biscuits but it does offer some
interesting techniques. Dough is extruded in a tubular form and a lining tube of fat is
coextruded within it. The double tube is flattened, gauged then laminated before being
gauged and laminated again. The gauging is by means of what is known as ‗stretcher‘
which consists of an endless chain of rollers arranged behind one another.