Description and condition: Blue boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 250pp, index, bibliography, notes, b/w illustrations. Book is as new, in very good, protected dustcover.
Contents: In the sweet shop; why sweets are not puddings: some definitions; sucrose, sugar loaves and cassonade: facts about sugar; boiling and measuring: the alchemy of sugar; candy complexities; written in sugar: pulled sweets and seaside rock; sweet acidity: fruit drops and fruit preserved; lost meanings: comfits; consuming wealth and eating words: sugar paste; at the interface: sherbet; against the cough: liquorice and marshmallow; a late developer: toffee; for the look of the thing; the sugar archives; appendix: practical notes |
