barley-candy

You can see that a hundred dollars would have gone a good way in barley-candy and blood-alleys, -- which last are things unknown, perhaps, to Young America to-day.

How to Do It Edward Everett Hale 1865

The front shop-window was especially interesting to us children, for there were in it a few glass jars containing sticks of striped barley-candy, and red and white peppermint-drops, and that delectable achievement of the ancient confectioner's art, the "Salem gibraltar."

A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) Lucy Larcom 1858