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Definition of Barley candy
1. Noun. A brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barley Candy
Literary usage of Barley candy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Salem Shipmaster and Merchant: The Autobiography of George Nichols by George Nichols (1921)
"One of my earliest recollections was of a little drawer in a fascinating secretary
in the dining- room, always kept filled with barley candy for the ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"... bedroom a large blue-yarn stocking, bigger tenfold than his own, and in it
were all sorts of funny gingerbread men and horses, barley- candy statuettes, ..."
3. The Boston Way: Plans for the Development of the Individual Child by Boston (Mass.). Special Class Teachers (1917)
"... Eggs Lemon Jelly Broiled Meat Cakes Peanut barley candy (Additional in Middle
Class) Mashed Potatoes Corn Starch Blancmange Creamed Soups Stews (Beef, ..."
4. Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876)
"... or pen, ink, and paper, or a painter's brush, by which he can communicate
himself to the human race as if he were fire; and the other buys barley candy. ..."
5. The Nursery by Fanny P Seaverns, John L. Shorey (Firm (1870)
"I wonder if it will. If that stick of barley candy is not all eaten in half a
day, I shall be very much mistaken. ..."
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