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.

With a Twist and a Turn Emma Crichton-Miller 2011

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.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

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.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

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

A Holiday Romance 2007

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

A Holiday Romance 2007

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!) Elizabeth McClung 2007

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 2006

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 2006

“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 2006

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

The Paris Sketch Book 2006