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This is a list of British desserts, i.e. desserts characteristic of British cuisine, the culinary tradition of the United Kingdom. The British kitchen has a long tradition of noted sweet-making, particularly with puddings, custards , and creams; custard sauce is called crème anglaise (English cream) in French cuisine .
Sugar confectionery includes candies (sweets in British English), candied nuts, chocolates, chewing gum, bubble gum, pastillage, and other confections that are made primarily of sugar. In some cases, chocolate confections (confections made of chocolate) are treated as a separate category, as are sugar-free versions of sugar confections. [ 1 ]
Confectionery can be mass-produced in a factory. The oldest recorded use of the word confectionery discovered so far by the Oxford English Dictionary is by Richard Jonas in 1540, who spelled or misspelled it as "confection nere" in a passage "Ambre, muske, frankencense, gallia muscata and confection nere", thus in the sense of "things made or sold by a confectioner".
Pages in category "British confectionery" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Chocolate-covered wafer bar confection created by Rowntree's of York. Liquorice allsorts: Mondelez International: Assorted liquorice-flavoured candies created by George Bassett & Co. Mars: Mars: Mars is a British chocolate bar. Maltesers: Maltesers consist of a spheroid malted milk centre surrounded by milk chocolate. Pink shrimps: Barratt's
A traditional Christmas cake made to resemble a log, commonly decorated with confections shaped as various woodland items such as mushrooms, snow and berries. Also known as a yule log. Budapestlängd [5] Sweden: A rolled meringue-hazelnut cake filled with whipped cream and pieces of canned peach, apricot, or mandarin orange. Buko pandan cake ...
[18] [19] However, advertisements for chocolate sprinkles as a confection exist in the United States as far back as 1921, [20] predating Just Born by two years. A related product, sanding sugar has been commercially available in a small range of colors for decades. Now it comes in a wide variety, including black and metallic-like "glitter".
One explanation is the meaning "to cut or score" for the word "scotch", as the confection must be cut into pieces, or "scotched", before hardening. [4] [5] Alternatively, the "scotch" may derive from the word "scorch". [6] In 1855, F. K. Robinson's Glossary of Yorkshire Words explained Butterscotch as "a treacle ball with an amalgamation of ...