Sherbet Pips
Tiny, sharp, and gone by the handful.
- CategoryHard Boiled
- First appeared1800s
- CountryBritain
- How it is madeBoiled
What it is
Very small hard sweets in bright colours, each with a fizzing sherbet centre. Too small to suck for long, so most people eat them by the handful and get the fizz all at once.
Taste
Where it comes from
Sherbet pips are a Victorian British sweet, made by the same confectioners who made sherbet lemons and cough candy. Sherbet arrived in Britain from the Middle East as sharbat, a cooled sweet drink, and by the 1800s British sweet makers had turned it into a fizzing powder. Making the smallest possible boiled sweet with a fizzing centre was a display of skill.
What it's made of
Sugar and glucose syrup boiled hard and formed into tiny pieces around a sherbet centre of sugar, citric acid and bicarbonate of soda.
Ingredients and allergens
Ingredients
Sugar, Glucose, Citric Acid, Bicarbonate of Soda, Flavouring, Colours: E102, E129
Colours used may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.
Products containing <strong>nuts</strong> and <strong>milk</strong> are produced at this factory.
Allergens
May contain: Milk, Tree nuts
