1770-1780

Sweetmeat Basket

Sweetmeats served in the eighteenth century included sugared fruit, flowers, nuts, seeds, wafers, cakes, biscuits, drops, pastilles of sugar, and fruit juice and fruit leather. Descendants of these delights are available today in glacéed apricots, peaches, and pineapple; candied orange and lemon peel; Turkish delight, gum drops, jujubes, lemon drops, chewy penny candy figures, creamy peppermint drops, Jordan almonds, marzipan fruits and vegetables, and chocolate pastilles covered with white nonpareils.