History of confectionary

Humans have been chomping on sweets for thousands of years. It is documented that early Homo sapiens enjoyed fresh honey beehives. It seems they also extracted sweet saps form trees.

During ancient times, the Egyptians, and Arabs were known to prepare sweet confection of fruit and nuts candied in honey. All the people at that time made sweetmeats of honey before they had sugar.

The word ‘confectioner’ and ‘confectioneries’ occur in the scriptures in a form denoting that making of sweet preparation was an established art in the time of Samuel.

The art of sugar confectionary is said to have developed in the Far East by reason of the ability of a natural crop called sweet cane.

By mixing the sugar extracted from this cane with other available natural products, crude confections were developed.

Most likely that’s sugar confectionary was known 10000 years ago in the very civilized oasis city of Jericho.

The dried fruits and nuts were prepared by mixing in sweet, spicy of floral ingredients.

The giant grass, sugar cane, hails from India and is mentioned in ancient Sanskrit texts from 1200 BC. A popular Persian delicacy, s sweet reed flavored with honey and spices, was called ‘kand’.

Confectionary featured in the most sumptuous of Athenian banquets, and was an ornament to Roman feasts at the time of the Satyricon.

Until well into the nineteenth century, people held refined sugar in high esteem and ate it only in tiny amounts, because it was so expensive and hard to come by.

The American elite often enjoy sweet confections as status symbols at impressive dinner, sweets either of their own making or purchased from urban furiterers and confections who specialized in provisioning the wealthy, whom they supplied with goods imported from England and France.

‘Candy sugar’ was a popular confection right up to the 1940s in the United Kingdom and also in the United States.

The manufacturer of confectionary, in its modern development, as practiced in England and the United States, bears the distinctive artistic characteristics of French ingenuity and invention.
History of confectionary