These old-school mints were a far cry from our modern-day humbugsand spearmint chews, as they were in the form of pellets made from frankincense, myrrh (not gold though), and cinnamon. These core ingredients were mixed up and then boiled with honey, all of which sounds quite pleasant, doesn't it? Atrue old fashioned, quality, boiled sweet in a gift tin. A great gift for anyone with a sweet tooth!

It wasn’t just the Egyptians who loved mint. The Ancient Greeks considered it a sign of hospitality, used it in their baths, and also flavoured their water with it because they believed it held special powers. Pat Surtees of Darlington responded by sending a picture of a very similar slender bullet that she has with a First World War provenance. The Yorkshire Trench was discovered in 1992 on an industrial estate. It had the bodies of 155 First World War soldiers from Britain, France and Germany in it. The trench was dug in 1915, and was fought over on several occasions until late 1917. She also recalls visiting her great-uncle’s home, York House. “My mother took me there at Christmases, and the out-building was used for storage, because they did a lot of delivering around the area, and perhaps as a shop,” she says. The Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans are known for their wisdom, innovation, industriousness, and organisational skills. In general, they’re also considered clean civilisations due to their focus on bathing and personal hygiene. As for people who lived in Medieval times… well, they weren’t quite as nostril-friendly.These sweets are approx 1.7cm's long by 1.5cm's wide by 1.5cm's deep and weigh approx 5.5g-7.5g per sweet with an average of 6g giving you approx 15-18 sweets per 113g weigh out bag.

A Shop Sealed Weigh Out Bag of Hard Boiled Unwrapped Sweets supplied in a clear plastic poly bag. (No jars are supplied only come in weighout bags) Sylvia Western of Hurworth gently pours scorn on our theory. “As a teenager, a friend and I worked at some boarding kennels at the bottom of Polam Lane,” she says. “They were set up in the stables of Beechwood, two kennels to one stall, so I think the coach-house idea might not be right because it would be too far from the horses.The owners of the kennels lived in a cottage in the walled garden also connected to the stables. I remember that the dogs were allowed to go in the walled garden for a bit of exercise.” Ingredients: Sugar, glucose syrup, condensed full cream milk , hydrogenated palm kernel oil, salt, emulsifier: soya lecithin, flavourings, colours; anthocyanins E163

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My husband and I did a Flanders battlefields tour last year to follow up information we had about my grandmother's first husband, John Smith, who died near Ypres in 1917 – we found his name on the Menin gate,” she said. We were instructed in the use of a Lee Enfield rifle which was identical to the ones used in the First World War – five rounds in the magazine and one in the breach,” he says. Like the Greeks, the Romans added mint in their baths. They also gave it to slaves in the form of a tonic by mixing it with barley water. Wealthy Romans crowned themselves with mint leaves during feasts and they were even used in some buildings as a cleaning agent to give floors a pleasing scent.