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Can I deal with this disappointment?
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Andysmum | Report | 24 Jun 2014 16:49 |
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. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 24 Jun 2014 17:09 |
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. |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 24 Jun 2014 17:38 |
Could this be something more 'traditional': |
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Maryanna | Report | 24 Jun 2014 17:55 |
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. |
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LaGooner | Report | 24 Jun 2014 22:19 |
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. |
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Barbara | Report | 24 Jun 2014 22:49 |
I have a friend who goes mad for Pontefract cakes. |
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Sharron | Report | 24 Jun 2014 22:55 |
There are some good liquorice sites on-line. |
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Persephone | Report | 24 Jun 2014 23:18 |
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. |
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Sharron | Report | 25 Jun 2014 00:45 |
That is a sherbet fountain, a sherbet dab is a lolly with a packet of sherbet. |
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PollyinBrum | Report | 25 Jun 2014 21:07 |
Sharron PLEASE don't mention liquorice, I have eaten a bIg packet today. |
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Persephone | Report | 26 Jun 2014 11:41 |
They never called them fountains here Sharron, but I can understand the naming of them... |
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Sharron | Report | 26 Jun 2014 11:44 |
Icing sugar and cream of tartar. |