Chocolate Limes
A combination that should not work.
- CategoryHard Boiled
- First appeared1920s
- CountryBritain
- How it is madeBoiledExtruded
What it is
A hard boiled lime sweet with a chocolate centre. The shell is sharp and citrus, then it gives way to soft chocolate. Divisive, and the people who like them like them a lot.
Taste
Where it comes from
Chocolate limes are a traditional British boiled sweet from the early twentieth century, associated with old fashioned sweet shops and jars behind the counter. They belong to a small family of boiled sweets with a soft centre, alongside chocolate eclairs and sherbet lemons, which were a display of skill when they were first made because getting a centre into a boiled sweet without cracking it is difficult.
What it's made of
Sugar and glucose syrup boiled hard, flavoured with lime and coloured green, formed around a chocolate flavoured centre made with cocoa powder and vegetable fat.
Ingredients and allergens
Ingredients
May contain traces of Cereals containing <strong>gluten</strong> > 20ppm,
Sugar, glucose syrup, acid: citric acid; chocolate flavour centre (sugar, partly hydrogenated palm kernel oil, <strong>whey</strong> powder (<strong>milk</strong>), fat reduced cocoa powder (8%), emulsifier: <strong>soya</strong> lecithin, E476; flavouring), vegetable fat (palm oil), flavouring, colours: E102, E142.
Warning: E102 may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.
Allergens
Contains: Milk, Soya. May contain: Gluten
