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Join us as we make Rhubarb & Custard sweets in our 1900s shop
Popular North East sweets included black bullets, cinder toffee, blacks and rasps and fish in the sea. Sweetmakers in the region included George W Horner and Co of Chester-le-Street, Redheads of Blyth, J Welch of Whitley Bay and J Vose of Durham (whose mint rock was promoted as being “invaluable to mental as well as physical workers”). Sweets were originally developed for medicinal reasons, to make tablets more palatable. They were soon sold for flavour alone but some were promoted for health, such as sarsaparilla tablets, popular on Wearside, which were advertised as being good for blood circulation and rheumatic pains.
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Join us as we make Rhubarb & Custard sweets in our 1900s shop
Popular North East sweets included black bullets, cinder toffee, blacks and rasps and fish in the sea. Sweetmakers in the region included George W Horner and Co of Chester-le-Street, Redheads of Blyth, J Welch of Whitley Bay and J Vose of Durham (whose mint rock was promoted as being “invaluable to mental as well as physical workers”). Sweets were originally developed for medicinal reasons, to make tablets more palatable. They were soon sold for flavour alone but some were promoted for health, such as sarsaparilla tablets, popular on Wearside, which were advertised as being good for blood circulation and rheumatic pains.
Our other Social Media pages:
Facebook: facebook.com/BeamishLivingMuseum
Instagram: instagram.com/beamish_museum
Twitter: twitter.com/Beamish_Museum
