Coltfoots rock
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Quite a lot of health food shops (occasionally shoppes) sell colts foot rock. Worth a check of your local one before driving a longer distance 
Quite a lot of health food shops (occasionally shoppes) sell colts foot rock. Worth a check of your local one before driving a longer distance
Now that's mean - you're just trying to stop my ill-judged spending spree on stuff I don't need in a surplus shop!
£6.03 for half a kilo delivered:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stockleys-C...qid=1426799278&sr=8-1&keywords=Coltsfoot+rock
Used to be able to get it in Holland and Barrett in the jar next to the equally delicious licorice root, but no more.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stockleys-C...qid=1426799278&sr=8-1&keywords=Coltsfoot+rock
Used to be able to get it in Holland and Barrett in the jar next to the equally delicious licorice root, but no more.
Fruit bonbons are now sold by bassets.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bassetts-Fruit-Bonbons-Bag-Pack/dp/B009JS16XE coltsfoot rock is sold in most indipendant chemists. Cough candy is sold in Tesco http://m.tesco.com/h5/groceries/r/www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=261346519
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Managed to get over to Ross today, bought 200g of the rock; really nice taste, subtle and not too sweet and brought back memories. Walked from the sweety shop to Sainsbury's to take advantage of the Look What We Found offer, back to the car and thought I'd take a walk along the flat part of the Little Doward, which is right on the border as I make my way home with my loot Had about an hour stumping about up there very enjoyably and Molly loved it, got back in the car and drove the twenty five minutes back home. On arrival, one of my elderly neighbours greeted me at his back gate and asked how my day had been so far. I told him I'd found some Coltsfoot Rock and would he like a bit? "an 'ad a bit ov ik stuff since God wuz a boy" he says, with a delighted look on his face........Imagine my embarrasment when I reached into my pocket and found an empty bag.....I'd scoffed the lot and had a really sore mouth to boot
So now I have to drive over there again first thing tomorrow to get him some
Had about an hour stumping about up there very enjoyably and Molly loved it, got back in the car and drove the twenty five minutes back home. On arrival, one of my elderly neighbours greeted me at his back gate and asked how my day had been so far. I told him I'd found some Coltsfoot Rock and would he like a bit? "an 'ad a bit ov ik stuff since God wuz a boy" he says, with a delighted look on his face........Imagine my embarrasment when I reached into my pocket and found an empty bag.....I'd scoffed the lot and had a really sore mouth to boot So now I have to drive over there again first thing tomorrow to get him some
Managed to get over to Ross today, bought 200g of the rock; really nice taste, subtle and not too sweet and brought back memories. Walked from the sweety shop to Sainsbury's to take advantage of the Look What We Found offer, back to the car and thought I'd take a walk along the flat part of the Little Doward, which is right on the border as I make my way home with my loot
So now I have to drive over there again first thing tomorrow to get him some
Nice one. I drove through Ross today too, but didn't stop. I assumed the sweet shop would be closed.
Always prefered savoury to sweet but some things did slip through.
Pontifract cakes (which had an averse effect when I overdosed once), Hawick balls, clove rock, Edinburgh rock, chewing tobbaco (the coconut stuff Red), japs, oddfellows, horehound and the candied angellica my Granny used to make.
Toddy had some lucky tatties a few weeks back - braw, the shop also sold violet creams and violet rock
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Pontifract cakes (which had an averse effect when I overdosed once
), Hawick balls, clove rock, Edinburgh rock, chewing tobbaco (the coconut stuff Red), japs, oddfellows, horehound and the candied angellica my Granny used to make.Toddy had some lucky tatties a few weeks back - braw, the shop also sold violet creams and violet rock
Sent via smokesignal from a woodland in Scotland.
I don't have much of a sweet tooth, but violet creams were a pleasure….so were parma violets until they started putting gelatine in them.
There's a shelf in one of the wee glass cupboards in the kitchen dresser that has small sweetie jars on it. I like a sweetie, but they come in quarter pounds or huge great bags these days, so they get decanted into the jars, and it's like a mini sweet shop for choosing a sweetie from. Thankfully Himself does have a sweet tooth, so I get variety and he gets volume, and happily helps finish mine too, iimmc
Just now I have love hearts, mint imperials and Ricola sugar free.
Himself has….salmiakki liquorice, cough candy, fisherman's friends, smarties, non-veggie mints, chocolate raisins, cola bottles, sugar almonds, marshmallows, Summer fruits and fruit gums.
Mine will see me through to the end of Summer…..his will be gone just in time for the glut of Easter chocolate (I still have some of those wee Lindt chocolate teddy bears from Christmas to finish, but Son2 has thankfully polished off the rest of the Christmas chocolate)
I'd be on an enormous sugar rush if I even attempted to eat that much sweet stuff, and I get a present instead of more sweet and chocolate at Easter.
I used to make a lot of sweeties, that way I knew what went into them and that the dreaded Enumber colourings (son2 was allergic) weren't included.
Himself's tablet recipe is on the forum; British Red ? how about we devise our own version of Kendall Mint Cake ? something that's actually tasty but could be dissolved in a mug of hot water to make a good hot drink ? Chocolate, coffee, sugar, mint, kind of thing.
atb,
M
There's a shelf in one of the wee glass cupboards in the kitchen dresser that has small sweetie jars on it. I like a sweetie, but they come in quarter pounds or huge great bags these days, so they get decanted into the jars, and it's like a mini sweet shop for choosing a sweetie from. Thankfully Himself does have a sweet tooth, so I get variety and he gets volume, and happily helps finish mine too, iimmc
Just now I have love hearts, mint imperials and Ricola sugar free.
Himself has….salmiakki liquorice, cough candy, fisherman's friends, smarties, non-veggie mints, chocolate raisins, cola bottles, sugar almonds, marshmallows, Summer fruits and fruit gums.
Mine will see me through to the end of Summer…..his will be gone just in time for the glut of Easter chocolate
(I still have some of those wee Lindt chocolate teddy bears from Christmas to finish, but Son2 has thankfully polished off the rest of the Christmas chocolate)I'd be on an enormous sugar rush if I even attempted to eat that much sweet stuff, and I get a present instead of more sweet and chocolate at Easter.
I used to make a lot of sweeties, that way I knew what went into them and that the dreaded Enumber colourings (son2 was allergic) weren't included.
Himself's tablet recipe is on the forum; British Red ? how about we devise our own version of Kendall Mint Cake ? something that's actually tasty but could be dissolved in a mug of hot water to make a good hot drink ? Chocolate, coffee, sugar, mint, kind of thing.
atb,
M
Only if we make the peppermint extract from scratch
The vanilla worked really well - much better than shop bought!
Yeah, too much sugar and I feel kind of squick too 
Get well soon
BR…Okay, we can do that coffee and chocolate though ??? we can find substitutes, maybe ?
M
Get well soon BR…Okay, we can do that
coffee and chocolate though ??? we can find substitutes, maybe ?M
Yeah, too much sugar and I feel kind of squick too
BR…Okay, we can do that
M
We don't need them for the mint cake
. We've already done sugar making so that's a tick....Yeah, too much sugar and I feel kind of squick too
BR Okay, we can do that
M
Something like horehound mint cake would be nice and be a good drink especially for sore throats.
British Red's homemade mint cake would sell well on here I reckon.
You'd make a... err.... mint!
You'd make a... err.... mint!
