Simpkins Blackcurrant Fruit Drops

We have strayed over the border again - this is English candy, not Scottish. However, this is the only blackcurrant candy I ever tasted and the price is so right! Blackcurrant is such a Scottish flavor I had to buy them. There are dozens of large dimpled round hard candies in this lovely round tin. Made in Sheffield, England, known more for its metalwork than its candy, however Simpkins has been doing just that since 1921. Old fashioned factory in a very old town, family owned to this day. So you know you can trust the quality - my grandmother would have called this a superior sucking candy. She loved hard candy till the day she departed at the age of 104.

$11.00

$11.00
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INGREDIENTS

Ingredients: Sugar, Glucose syrup, Blackcurrant Flavouring, Caramel Colour. Serving Size - 3 pcs = 60 caloies, 15grams of carbohydrate, 11 grams of sugar. 0 grams protein or fat. Estimated 39 pieces per tin.

Ingredients: Sugar, Glucose syrup, Blackcurrant Flavouring, Caramel Colour. Serving Size - 3 pcs = 60 caloies, 15grams of carbohydrate, 11 grams of sugar. 0 grams protein or fat. Estimated 39 pieces per tin.

VENDOR

Simpkin's has been making 'travel sweets' since 1921 using only the finest ingredients.

Simpkin's has been making 'travel sweets' since 1921 using only the finest ingredients.

SHIPPING INFO

This non-perishable item can be sent by FedEx for $12 for up to $100 of merchandise, $10 on orders less than $30. Expect delivery 3-10 days from the time you place your order. Add a perishable item to the order, shipping will be $30 for up to $100 of merchandise, $20 on orders less than $30. For full details of shipping charges see our shipping policy

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This non-perishable item can be sent by FedEx for $12 for up to $100 of merchandise, $10 on orders less than $30. Expect delivery 3-10 days from the time you place your order. Add a perishable item to the order, shipping will be $30 for up to $100 of merchandise, $20 on orders less than $30. For full details of shipping charges see our shipping policy

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Customers praised these drops for their "brilliant" blackcurrant flavor and excellent quality. Reviewers noted they're "great when your throat is scratchy" and appreciated the "perfectly formed drops rolled in loose sugar" with a "strong and functioning tin." The flavor was described as novel in the USA and works well alone or combined with cherry.

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Renee Greig

Black currant flavor was brilliant!

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Linda Hicklin

These drops are excellent. Great when your throat is scratchy.

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Pieter Volk

Lovely flavor, perfectly formed drops rolled in loose sugar, strong and functioning tin: everything is great. Although possibly not too different from other berries in flavor characteristics, it is a novel flavor in the USA, and I understand that it's because the bushes were actively ripped out and burned nationwide during an outbreak of a fungus killing white pine trees. It was found that blackcurrant was a carrier of the disease and it threatened the lumber industry, so yeah: we don't have blackcurrant candy really.

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Pieter Volk

Lovely flavor, perfectly formed drops rolled in loose sugar, strong and functioning tin: everything is great. Although possibly not too different from other berries in flavor characteristics, it is a novel flavor in the USA, and I understand that it's because the bushes were actively ripped out and burned nationwide during an outbreak of a fungus killing white pine trees. It was found that blackcurrant was a carrier of the disease and it threatened the lumber industry, so yeah: we don't have blackcurrant candy really.

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Malissa G. Schmitt

An most excellent flavor on its own, or one can include cherry for a most tantalizing flavor combination

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Malissa G. Schmitt

An most excellent flavor on its own, or one can include cherry for a most tantalizing flavor combination