- bambillonia: "Sugar of Babylon"
- Berwick cockles: chalky mint sweets with delicate pink striations
- bêtises (Fr. 'sillies'): sticky little mints
- candy corn was once known as chicken feed
- Capuchin nougat: (Fr. medieval sweet) a dried fig with a green walnut inside
- claggum/clack: sticks of treacle rock, also known as reasing candy
- croccantes: nut brittles
- épices de chambre: after-dinner sweets, literally "bedroom spices"
- gorge d'ange: angels' throats
- Indian salt: medieval term for sugar
- jalebi: spirals of crisp, delicate batter which release rosewater when bitten
- Jeddart snails: made of dark brown toffee, with a peppermint taste
- jelly babies were originally called unclaimed babies
- kelly-in-a-coffin: a sugar baby in a coffin, a well-known sweet in the 19th century
- kurat al milh: (Ar. "ball of sweet salt") caramel
- limonadier: (Fr. "lemonade seller") sold ice cream, confectionery, drinks, & opened cafés
- paradise twist: boiled sugar streaked with red & white
- pastilla: (Lat. "little cake")
- ping: (Ch. cake)
- raisins of Corinth: dried figs, dates, & raisins
- sucette: (Fr. lollipop)
- wet sweetmeats: marmalade/conserves
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