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01 Dec 04 - 02:17 PM (#1344595) Subject: BS: Baaa Humbug From: grumpy al could it be that sheep really do eat boiled sweets? |
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01 Dec 04 - 02:24 PM (#1344600) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: Once Famous What is a boiled sweet? Sounds rank. |
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01 Dec 04 - 02:26 PM (#1344605) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: Cluin A humbug. It's a little candy. |
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01 Dec 04 - 02:27 PM (#1344609) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: grumpy al Sorry. Hard Candy |
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01 Dec 04 - 02:30 PM (#1344611) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: SINSULL Martin Gibson, Have you never read The Jewel In The Crown? Boiled sweets figure big in the first book. Baaa Humbug, indded. My new $1000 repaired roof is leaking - CRAP! |
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01 Dec 04 - 03:02 PM (#1344646) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: Once Famous No, I've not read that book, Sinsull. But why is it called a boiled sweet if it's a hard candy? Is it really boiled or does it give you a boil? |
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01 Dec 04 - 03:18 PM (#1344661) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: Rasener There you go m8teys. Look at this website http://www.humbugs-chocolates.co.uk/shop/33/index.htm |
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01 Dec 04 - 03:19 PM (#1344662) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: Big Al Whittle Its just called that here. why is New England called that. Its not new, Its not England. |
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01 Dec 04 - 03:22 PM (#1344665) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: Once Famous Villan, some of those pictures look like crawling larvae. New England though was called that because at one time it was new and was an extension of England, until we found out that you have hard candy that look like crawling larvae. |
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01 Dec 04 - 07:30 PM (#1344892) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: SINSULL My work required me to learn how to make hard candy and it is indeed boiled and very carefully. Crystallization will ruin a batch. Stirring has to be done carefully and gently or the syrup will splash and a crystal will form and drop back into the mixture - supersaturated - and the whole thing goes cloudy. It is a hot, sticky, thankless job. Lollipops are boiled sweets - nice and clear if done properly. So are Life Savers and lemon drops. |
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01 Dec 04 - 08:12 PM (#1344927) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: Big Al Whittle Well true enough, but then you boil a lot of things. I suppose Martin has a point, theres not much logic in it. No, we know what we mean by boiled sweets. They're in a jar, the shop keeper gets them out and puts them in a bag, they are usually hard and involve sucking before they get chewable, at which point they damage your teeth. i don't know why we call them boiled sweets. I suppose its easier than saying I want the ones out of the jar. Its a sort of generic term for that kind of sweet. Incidentally, they're very good if you get a sore throat and you've got to soothe it. Always worth trying a few boiled sweets before or even simultaneous with the antibiotics. Merry Christmas all you singers - don't forget to lay in the humbugs, Uncle Joes Mintballs, and Werthers Originals for the festive Season. all the best al |
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01 Dec 04 - 08:48 PM (#1344944) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: Kaleea SinSull, why don't you just go out into the kitchen & whip up some of those boiled sweets & patch your roof with it? It oughtta turn real hard & keep the rain out. |
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01 Dec 04 - 10:04 PM (#1345010) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: SINSULL No - it will dissolve just as quickly. Then I will have sticky, wet floors instead of just wet floors. Now, come closer so I can smack you this side of your head. SINS |
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02 Dec 04 - 04:49 AM (#1345239) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: Big Al Whittle Does anyone eat American hard boiled gums any more? Are they still made. Did Americans ever eat them. A sort of jube jube, very hard for a jube jube, coated with sugar - the white ones and the red ones had a lovely vanilla flavour? |
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02 Dec 04 - 08:05 AM (#1345318) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: Leadfingers When I had the day job , every December I used to check on ALL the Confectionary shops on my route (Seventeen in all) but in twenty years I never found on that actually stocked Christmas Humbugs . Dickens and Ebenezer must be heart broken ! |
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02 Dec 04 - 08:41 AM (#1345354) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: The Fooles Troupe A humbug was a nothing, a nonsense. |
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02 Dec 04 - 10:58 AM (#1345464) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: Pauline L Sinsull, what kind of job did you have that required you to make these candies? It sounds like it takes some skill. Weelittledrummer, what are you talking about? "Hard boiled gums" and "jube jubes coated with sugar"? As someone famous once said, the Americans and the English are separated by a common language. Now, to think harder about roof repairs... |
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02 Dec 04 - 11:36 AM (#1345505) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: SINSULL I sold sugar, coloring, and flavors. We were trained periodically in bakery and confectionery applications - like I really was going to get near a vat of boiling sugar syrup. |
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02 Dec 04 - 11:40 AM (#1345510) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: SINSULL Although, my "expertise" paid off when a hard candy producer who cooked his candy in a pressurized kettle decided to buy cheap "off shore" sugars. I warned him that the boiling point could be dramatically different because the sugar was not cleaned properly. He found out the hard way that I was right although heeding my advice he had added an anti-foaming agent so at least there wasn't an explosion. |
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02 Dec 04 - 12:03 PM (#1345537) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: GUEST,Mingulay Massa Leadfingers, I thought you wuz Christmas Humbug. And Easter and Whitsun etc etc. |
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02 Dec 04 - 04:18 PM (#1345675) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: Big Al Whittle Do you remember the really big humbugs that they used to sell at the rock shop at the seaside along with egg and bacon made out of rock. I don't know anybody who ever ate a really big humbug. Big as your fist. this is decided me , I'm going to start looking for these things. they're always preserving crap like railway lines and stately homes - undrinkable beers..... something good and worthwhile like big humbugs....why they've all but disappeared. |
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02 Dec 04 - 07:58 PM (#1345858) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: George Papavgeris D'you mean gobstoppers? |
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02 Dec 04 - 07:59 PM (#1345861) Subject: RE: BS: Baaa Humbug From: George Papavgeris I believe there is dearth of gobstoppers right now in the South of England, 'cause some bloke called Steve bought them all as a gift to Lizzie from Sidmouth. |