Sugar-plums and sherbet
Subtitle: the prehistory of sweets
By: Laura Mason.
Publisher: Prospect Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Totnes, Devon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Confectionery -- History.; Confectionery -- Equipment and supplies -- History.
Description: "This study of the ingenuity of sugar-boiling and the manufacture of those intriguing avatars of childhood happiness, the humbug, gobstopper, peardrop and stick of rock is now republished in paperback. As well as a history, it is also a recipe book, with twenty tried and tested methods for sweets ancient and modern."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-240) and index.
Originally published: 1998.