by Lolly Lady on September 1, 2010
Bo Peeps – those funny shape glass jars filled with brightly coloured miniature rock candy have been a family favourite gift for decades. Traditionally made to the original (Darrell) Lea family rock candy recipe and sold in their stores across Sydney, there are generations of Aussies who can still look at a jar and remember [...]
by Lolly Lady on July 31, 2010
Rock Candy also known as candied sugar has its origins in India and Iran. Arabic writers in the first half of the 9th century described the production of candy sugar, where crystals were grown as a result of cooling supersaturated sugar solutions. In order to accelerate crystallization, confectioners later learned to immerse small twigs in [...]