barley-sugar

• “Neil Mason Swivel bracelet in 18-carat gold 2004, by Jacqueline Mina Ms. Mina found herself entranced by the barley-sugar twists the strips produced before they became tubes.”

  The Wall Street Journal: With a Twist and a Turn

• “Just watching a man divide flat round cakes of barley-sugar brittle into pieces with a tiny chisel, or dip up strands of hot thick melted sugar to twist into sticks of candy, was a delight.”

  Simon & Schuster: PEARL BUCK IN CHINA

• “Prince Certainpersonio was sitting by himself, eating barley-sugar, and waiting to be ninety.”

  A Holiday Romance

• “I remember favourite sweet indulgences of my childhood: Bassett's sherbert fountain sherbert sucked slowly through licorice, and twirly barley-sugar sticks and a kind of hard toffee flavoured candy in a long twirly stick with chocolate in the middle - can't remember what it was called.”

  Making/snorting pixie sticks and other fun stuff (like stalkers!)

• “You see very fat old men crying like babies, and, like babies, sucking enormous sticks of barley-sugar.”

  The Paris Sketch Book

• “The other boys spent all theirs in the first day or two, and they gave me plenty of cakes and barley-sugar then, I can tell you.”

  The Fatal Boots

• “The original Georgian plaster moldings were very fine, and the hall table, with barley-sugar legs, was one of the best he'd ever seen.”

  Farthing

• ““That is a Russian princess: and one of those little boys, the one who is sucking a piece of barley-sugar, plays, and wins five hundred louis in a night.””

  The Kickleburys on the Rhine

• “As he retired, rolling his gold pieces into his pocket and sucking his barley-sugar, she glared after him with angry eyes; and went home, and scolded everybody, and had no sleep.”

  The Kickleburys on the Rhine

• “I had had no Gregory; then I should have no barley-sugar kiss: so he decided with a touch of irritation.”

  Memories and Portraits

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