Yer Favourite Sweetie?.....

[Tusker]

My Friday lunch was a Cyder ice-lolly (or pear if I could get it) and a coconut bun!

Annette M

Coconut buns???....Oh my lord! There's another whole new thread!!! "Teabread" as the wee sweet buns were called. They were cheaper than the fancier, more expensive cakes like snowballs, battenburgs, strawberry tarts and Eiffel towers for example.....My favourite cake was (and still is) "Fly Cemeteries" -- or to give the sugary-coated little slices of heaven their proper name -- Raisin Squares

"Teabread" included such delicacies as Paris buns, Cinammon buns and my favourite...Coffee buns (or Coffee biscuits) from the City Bakeries. Their Coffee Buns looked somewhat like a big, thick, reddish-brown, domed oatmeal cookie, with a few crystals of rock sugar sprinkled on top, and a very few shrivelled raisins sprinkled inside the biscuit. They were rock hard, dry as dust, and to eat one without a cuppa was to invite instant dehydration or at the very least , "clapped-in" jaws. If thrown, they would have made excellent weapons.......Oh, what I'd do to get THAT City Bakeries recipe!

[ASGROOMBRIDGE]

My grandmother always had a wee bag of sweeties in her apron pocket they were round pink one's and yellow one's, I cant remember what they were called but I can remember the taste of them.

I do remember they were sold in see through bags.

Audrey

[jintyb]

Tusker
Coffee Buns? I have some in my cupboard.So come on over I'll put the kettle on.
Janet

[ASGROOMBRIDGE]

Have a look at this, it fair makes yer mouth water.

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/


Audrey

[joette]

Oh the City Bakery's trifle.Granny's fav spot for afternoon tea.
When my Auntie J came home from USA that would be one of her first stops& Peter's Cafe at Glasgow Cross for a McCallums.I think my American cousins look forward more to the case of sweeties/Ribena that Scottish visitors bring than the visitors themselves.My twin cousins have unlike their siblings never visited Scotland but love/crave Scottish sweets& off course because they are only now growing blackcurrants again Ribena(better now it comes in Plastic container)
My Auntie Is.on a trip to visit friends in Canada was almost "caught" by a sniffer dog with her Bacon,sausg& Rolls etc.Never again & how lucky the boy next to her had a stash!

[DavidWW]

I have a wee question.

Does your sense of taste degrade as you get older or are sweeties not as flavoursome as they used to be? ....much snipped ..............

Hmmmmm........ You've got me really worried in terms of my experience just in the last few days that supposedly traditional soor plooms didn't anywhere near produce the "grimace" that I'd have expected when I was younger .....

David

[paddyscar]

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Always liked the Lozenges that you bought for a sore throat as they had an Aniseed taste....

Were they Victory V's in a flat pack tin? We used to be able to get them at one pharmacy here, along with Calder's toffees. A sure sign you were grown up and had your own money was having a whole tube of Calder's 'all tae yersel'

Frances

[LesleyB]

Were they Victory V's in a flat pack tin?

I remember tiny liquorice sweeties which came in tins - I think they were called "imps". They were pretty strong, and thats what I liked about them!

Also liked mint cracknel, though I forgotten about its very existance until it was mentioned here!

I think it was Callard & Bowser who made packets of treacle toffee and liquorice - they came in flat packets about the size of a bar of chocolate and held five sticks of toffee, individually wrapped in silver or gold paper. Each "stick" could be broken into two portions. I think they also did a mint toffee and a chocolate covered toffee version too. These were sweeties my granny used to bring me - they were a bit out of my pocket money price range!

Best wishes
Lesley

[Tusker]

Tusker
Coffee Buns? I have some in my cupboard.So come on over I'll put the kettle on.
Janet

Aye, but are they the REAL thing, jintyb ? Are they City Bakeries Coffee Buns or pale imitations of the fragrant, tooth-crunching, moisture-depleting, little frisbees of the past I loved so dearly? The dead giveaway is, did you get them loose, in a brown paper bag, or were they wrapped in cellophane? City Bakeries is long gone now, isn't it? I've often wondered what happened to their recipe books.....Talk about selling your soul?????

East Kilbride, eh? Y'know, I built your National Engineering Laborotories? (Well I had some help from architects, engineers, brickies and other tradesmen -- but I was an apprentice electrician on the site when the NEL was under construction back in the mid-60's.....)

[AnneM]

Cinnamon balls were the best. Those and the triangular shaped brown ones whose name I can't remember. I spent most of my adolescence sucking polo mints. I'm not sure it was all worth it given the while I spent in the 'chair' with the drill going yesterday and the amount it cost me. No NHS dentists in Aberdeen these days.

Now I think about it black striped balls were no bad either!

Anne

P.S Does anyone remember Rosebuds. They had a rather sicky taste if I remember correctly and were believed to be the favourite sweetie of Princess Margaret, when she was a child. I would not venture to comment on her favourite sweeties when older.