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Sweets - Traditional Old Fashioned




Mint Humbugs
Mint Humbugs - £1.93
Price on 28-Oct-09 from A Quarter Of....
Mint Humbugs - Mmmm. . . I wonder if there`s any connection between Scrooge`s humbug, and our lip-smackingly delicious minty sweets? Mmm. . .ok. . .maybe not.Anyway, these lovely sweets are as traditional as you can get. Aaaaah, the lovely brown stripes will really take you back. . ...

Northern Pear Drops
Northern Pear Drops - £1.93
Price on 28-Oct-09 from A Quarter Of....
`Northern` Pear Drops - what makes them Northern? Well being a Southerner I had never seen Pear Drops like these before. Daaan Saaath pear drops are either pink or yellow. These are pink and yellow in the same sweet - still with the traditional delicious pear flavour but very very confusing. Still trying to get my head around the concept!!

Nougat
Nougat - £2.42
Price on 28-Oct-09 from A Quarter Of....
Nougat - The traditional stuff. . . creamy pink and white nougat with little pieces of peanut.Very nutty, very chewy and very very moreish! We love the packaging at A Quarter Of, because it`s nice and old-fashioned, and as you know, we love anything with a high nostalgia factor. Thumbs up!

Old Fashioned Humbugs
Old Fashioned Humbugs - £2.42
Price on 28-Oct-09 from A Quarter Of....
Old Fashioned Humbugs - Traditional minty humbugs with a scrummy toffee centre. Mmmmm... lovely! Apparently these are also known as Judy Barrett Humbugs - anyone know who she is/was??? (PS. They`re also free from artificial colours... hoorah!)

Orange and Lemon Slices
Orange and Lemon Slices - £1.93
Price on 28-Oct-09 from A Quarter Of....
Orange and Lemon Slices - traditional orange and lemon flavoured boiled sweets.



Pascalls Kopp Kopps
Pascalls Kopp Kopps - £2.22
Price on 28-Oct-09 from A Quarter Of....
Pascalls Kopp Kopps - traditional, sweet liquorice in the form of round hard sweets. Almost like a boiled version of Black Jacks. Great name too!



Penny Mix Kilner Jar
Penny Mix Kilner Jar - £13.47
Price on 28-Oct-09 from A Quarter Of....
Penny Mix Kilner Jar - A stunning thick glass large kilner jar filled to the brim with everyone`s favourite Penny Mix sweets. It`s a big jar and makes such a lovely, traditional gift for someone really special (or for yourself if you`ve had a hard day!). We always put in a fantastic mixure of Penny Mix - so it`s varied, colourful and full of the sweets you remember from the good old days! And the best bit? Well, once you`ve gobbled all the sweets, you can use the jar again and again and again - either with more sweets, coffee, sugar, spices, pasta, lentils, bath salts, screws, marbles, biscuits, ear buds.... I could go on for some time. It`ll look stunning on your kitchen shelf! Each large kilner jar weighs 1.8kg (contains 900g of sweets) and measures 21.5cm x 12cm x 12cm (that`s 8.5in x 4.5in x 4.5in). Brilliantly retro!

Raspberry Bulls Eyes
Raspberry Bulls Eyes - £1.93
Price on 28-Oct-09 from A Quarter Of....
Raspberry Bulls Eyes - A fruity twist on the traditional minty favourite. The concept is the same - white and coloured stripy boiled sweet - except this time the colour is pink not black and the flavour is raspberry not mint. They contain no artificial colours.

Sarsaparilla Tablets
Sarsaparilla Tablets - £2.12
Price on 28-Oct-09 from A Quarter Of....
Sarsaparilla Tablets - a distinctive taste in a very traditional boiled sweet. Some say they are the Viagra of the sweet world... oooer! Oh, and they`re also free from artificial flavours... hoorah!



Sherbet Pips Kilner Jar
Sherbet Pips Kilner Jar - £13.47
Price on 28-Oct-09 from A Quarter Of....
Sherbet Pips Kilner Jar - For all Sherbet Pips afficionados out there! A stunning thick glass large kilner jar filled to the brim with that old chestnut we all know and love - Sherbet Pips. It`s a big jar and makes such a lovely, traditional gift for someone really special with a penchant for Pips (or for yourself if you`ve had a hard day!). And the best bit? Well, once you`ve gobbled all the sherbetty pips, you can use the jar again and again and again - either with more sweets, coffee, sugar, spices, pasta, lentils, bath salts, screws, marbles, biscuits, ear buds.... I could go on for some time. It`ll look stunning on your kitchen shelf! Each large kilner jar weighs a pipping 2kg (contains 1kg of pips) and measures 21.5cm x 12cm x 12cm (that`s 8.5in x 4.5in x 4.5in). Brilliantly retro!

Strawberry Fizz Wham Bars
Strawberry Fizz Wham Bars - £1.54
Price on 28-Oct-09 from A Quarter Of....
Strawberry Fizz Wham Bars - just like the traditional Wham bars we all know and love, but in a scrumptious strawberry flavour, with a lip-smacking, tongue-tingling kick of fizz.



Sugar Almonds
Sugar Almonds - £2.22
Price on 28-Oct-09 from A Quarter Of....
Sugar Almonds - Lovely juicy large almonds encased in a crisp sugar coating in different pastel colours... they have such a delicate taste and they look really pretty. Fabulous for wedding favours, and for creating unusual table decorations. A great traditional sweet that looks really stunning.

Sugar Free Barley Sugar
Sugar Free Barley Sugar - £2.91
Price on 28-Oct-09 from A Quarter Of....
Sugar Free Barley Sugar - the traditional, old-fashioned, boiled sweet, But Sugar Free.



Sugar Free Blackcurrant and Liquorice
Sugar Free Blackcurrant and Liquorice - £2.91
Price on 28-Oct-09 from A Quarter Of....
Sugar Free Blackcurrant amp; Liquorice - a delicious sugar free version of the traditional favourite. Ingredients: Sweetener, Isomalt, Citric acid, Liquorice powder, Flavours amp; Natural Colours E162 E153

Sugar Free Devon Toffees
Sugar Free Devon Toffees - £2.91
Price on 28-Oct-09 from A Quarter Of....
Sugar Free Devon Toffees - a delicious sugar-free version of the traditional favourite. Ingredients: Sweetener, Isomalt, Maltitol, Vegetable oil, Milk powder, Butter, Salt, Flavouring Lecithin As well as being sugar free, these are also gluten free.