General Chat

Maybe I am showing my age [sweets were a bit thin on the ground during the war] but I have never heard of Winter Mixture.

If they had cloves and spices in, were they meant as cough sweets?

Sadly the old Winter Mixture seems to be no more. I loved em and our local sweetshop sold them by by the qtr pounds , you could ask for two ounces!! But they were unwrapped and in the big glass bottles . I loved the brown striped ones and the purple stripped ones that tasted strongly of cloves.

Our daughter was born in Sept 1958 and they were my passion then . the local shop stayed open til 9pm and i would be resisting all the time only to succumb some days and rush down to buy a quarter of winter mixtures just before they closed

The ones we get now just dont measure up to the old unwrapped ones

Could this be something more 'traditional':

http://www.thewelshsweetshop.com/acatalog/Traditional_Handmade_unwrapped_sweets.html

I know what you mean Sharron. A while ago we visited one of those, " this is what things used to be like in the olden days " places. They had several shops including a sweetie shop.

I bought some Winter Mix..... It was VILE '!!!!!!!

Not at all like it used to be.

The other thing I keep trying to buy like the proper old ones, are Lemon Sherberts. They never seem to taste of lemon or even have any Sherbert in them.

Bah Humbug.........

M.

Maryanna my OH loves Lemon Sherberts and is indeed very fussy about them . Bassets do good ones but we can only order them online. So Morrisons do a pretty good second choice.

I have a friend who goes mad for Pontefract cakes.

There are some good liquorice sites on-line.

I think I would like these original "winter mixture" have not seen them here.. used to buy Irish Moss jubes from a chemist.. and I have always thought that the balls are the best part of a clove.

I do miss honeycomb and sherbert dabs ..where you sucked the sherbert through a licorice straw and then we would get into sherbert dab "fun fights" and blow the sherbert and get covered in powder.

We did graduate to choko fights, only thing that vegetable was fit for.. but the prickles could hurt if you got whacked in the face.. Choko is a NZ vegetable that my parents used to boil and serve with white sauce.. it is horrible.

That is a sherbet fountain, a sherbet dab is a lolly with a packet of sherbet.

One of our carers was really into sherbet dabs but her husband was forced to get a sherbet fountain for her.

Never having had a sherbet fountain before, she ate it like a sherbet dab. Several other carers were unaware that there was a hole all the way through the liquorice and that you could suck the sherbet up through it.

Sharron PLEASE don't mention liquorice, I have eaten a bIg packet today.

They never called them fountains here Sharron, but I can understand the naming of them...

When a couple of near adults were teenage neighbours they made some sherbert, in a little packet with a straw instead of the liquorice, and sold them to neighbours.. quite enterprising of them and I bought a couple.. they also make nice fizzy drinks.

Icing sugar and cream of tartar.

You can make yourself a huge amount for next to nothing.

i love liquorice and eat far too much of it. Sugar free Pontefract cakes are the ones of choice at the moment.