Black Gold – Candy History Licorice Part 3
But what goes in a normal Licorice candy? Today licorice is a confection flavored with the extract of the roots of the Licorice plant. It is usually made out of the following ingredients: sugar, starch, glucose syrup, gelling agent, licorice extract, flour, salt, according to taste and ammonium chloride, flavorings, glazing agent: anise oil or beeswax, coloring agent: herbal carbon, and food colors. Gelling agents may be: gum arabic, agar-agar or gelatin. That sounds a bit strange so we look into some of those ingrediance for you, and you will find out its all mostly […]
