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Liquorice and Liquorice Style Sweets
Calling Liquorice Lovers everywhere - Sweets 'n' Candy stock the best
If you love liquorice, then you'll love what we've got to offer! A fantastic selection of liquorice in every colour and flavour possible. From Liquorice Wands and Catherine Wheels to Sherbet Dip Dabs and Liquorice Flyers. Try something new today and satisfy your love of liquorice with us!
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Want to know more about Liquorice?
Liquorice extract is produced by boiling liquorice root and subsequently evaporating most of the water (in fact, the word 'liquorice' is derived from the Ancient Greek words for 'sweet root'). Liquorice extract is traded both in solid and syrup form. Its active principle is glycyrrhizin, a sweetener more than 50 times as sweet as sucrose which also has pharmaceutical effects. G. uralensis contains this chemical in much greater concentration
Liquorice Allsorts
Liquorice flavour is found in a wide variety of liquorice sweets. The most popular are Liquorice Allsorts. In continental Europe, however, far stronger, saltier sweets are preferred. It should be noted, though, that in most of these sweets, the taste is reinforced by aniseed oil and the actual content of liquorice is quite low. However, in the Netherlands, where liquorice candy ("drop") is one of the most popular forms of sweets, only a few of the many forms that are sold contain aniseed (although mixing it with mint, menthol or with laurel is popular, and mixing it with ammonium chloride creates the very popular salty liquorice.)
Pontefract Cakes
Pontefract in Yorkshire was the first place where liquorice mixed with sugar began to be used as a sweet in the same way it is in the modern da - hence Pontefract Cakes. Liquorice flavouring is also used in soft drinks (such as root beer), and is in some herbal teas where it provides a sweet aftertaste. The flavour is common in medicines to disguise unpleasant flavours. Dutch youth often make their own "dropwater" (liquorice water) by putting a few pieces of laurel liquorice and a piece of liquorice root in a bottle with water and then shake it to a frothy liquid. Also popular in the Netherlands is a liquorice based liqueur called "dropshot."