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"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Ingredients : Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Citric Acid, Flavour, Colours (E102, E142).

Hawick Balls, Jethart Snails, Soor Plooms and many other wonderful sweet treats have come from our Border towns.

Wonderfully unique and richly evocative, this book is an inimitable tribute to a vanished-but much loved-way of life. A Traditional Scottish Hard Boiled Sweet With A Sharp, Fruity Flavour. Soor Plooms 5 - Mango & Banana Smoothie by Three Sisters Brewery is a Sour - Smoothie / Pastry which has a rating of 3.9 out of 5, with 37 ratings and reviews on Untappd. It was a time of the Sunday family walk wearing the hated tourniquet garters to keep your hand-knitted socks up, tattie holidays, wash day-all day on a Monday-in the outdoor wash house, woollen bathing trunks, small holders, schools' radio, cowboys and coal. Male teachers who smelled of damp Harris tweed and Brylcreem, lady teachers of Californian Poppy with just a hint of Trex. He evocatively recalls a time when poor children wore gym shoes or wellies all year round, when one walked everywhere-peering round corners on the carefully chosen long route to school, watching workers in boilersuits and bike clips sprinting to the factory, hanging about the sweetie shop penny tray planning what to buy on Saturday, hurrying past the fruit shop in case the deadly banana spider rumor was true, or running into school through the boy's gate. A soor ploom (sour plum in Scots) is a sharp-flavoured, round, green boiled sweet originally associated with Galashiels, Scotland and it is also Liane.

Touching and illuminating, he brilliantly recalls details large and small, from stand-your-spoon-up Scotch broth, to olive oil bought from the chemist to clean out your ears or to be used as suntan oil. Packages are generally dispatched within 2 days after receipt of payment and are shipped. With their bright-green color and even brighter acidic taste, these round, boiled sweets rank. Soor Plooms (Scots for sour plum) is a sharp flavoured, round.

In this warm-hearted, funny, and magnificent portrait, Bob Dewar recalls the community spirit of 1940s Scotland with perfectly balanced nostalgic recollections and glorious illustrations. Soor plooms originated in the southeastern town of Galashiels. I thought Soor Plooms was something you needed a cream for (see your local pharmacist. Money Back Guarantee ensures YOU receive the item you. Me, ah cry aff ah’m here tae write aboot the mairch, no tae rin it, an ah’m gey shuir. Yin o the organisers comes joggin taewarts us across the gress, asks if we’ll be stewards. Aboot the first thing that happens whan we get tae the mairch is that we get pit in chairge. TVPXMW.Soor Plooms and Sair Knees is an hilarious and moving recollection of the writer's childhood in a small Scottish east coast town during the immediate post-war years. Shop the Largest Selection, Click to See Search eBay faster with PicClick. Braw lads an soor plooms: on the mairch in Galashiels. Soor Plooms are one of the most traditional sweets in Scotland, originally made to commemorate the killing of a raiding party of Englishmen found eating.