Traditional lemon bon bons with lemony insides and lots of powder?

[WeeMadArthur]

I’m having a hankering after the lemon bon bons of my childhood. They were nice and big and had a lovely thick coating of lemony powder and had a lemony toffee as well. All the ones I have tried lately are either tiny, have the thinnest covering of powder or are plain toffee inside (outrageous I know). Where can I get traditional proper lemony ones?

Oof yes they were lovely. They need to be chewy too and not too hard!! Following!

The only place I have found that do the old fashioned bon bons that aren't hard and have a good flavour (although I dont like lemon) is Beamish in County Durham.

@spaniorita, I pre warm mine on the radiator so that I don’t pull out (another) filling!

@NeverHadANickname don’t suppose you remember the makers name?

I don't. Beamish is an open air museum and they sell them in their little traditional shop so not sure if they make them or buy them in?

If you can wait for the post to deliver: a quarter of

Not sure if lemon toffee www.treasureislandsweets.co.uk/bonbons/lemon-bonbons.html

Oh, god, there’s a bulk buy 3kg option! I really can’t justify that, can I?

Not until you've tried them first!

Ive placed a (smallish) order with A Quarter Of, fingers crossed they are the real thing!

Sadly the ones from A Quarter Of are not the real deal. They are soft and lemony but the promised thick lemony powder coating is but a memory. And now I have 600g to eat!

I love Vimto bonbons
A bit off piste but they're great.

they were delicious, and they had toffee ones with a white outside and strawberry ones.
The thing i miss most is sweet peanuts, peanut shaped and with a really salty nutty centre. Not the nut free nonsense they sell today, but full of salt - mmmmm. my fabvourite ones.

sorry for your lemon powder loss WeeMadArthur.

This shop is lovely, I’ve bought sweets whilst there and they have a website, however it says new recipe www.oldestsweetshop.co.uk/lemon-bon-bons-395

I think I can spot the wrong’uns now, they are squared rather than rounded ( because they don’t have the lovely thick powder coating )

I went to my local sweet shop yesterday and they have every bloody flavour of bon bon except lemon, haven’t had them for a year!

If I ever do find them I’m going to buy a whole tub!

WeeMadArthur there's an old fashioned sweet shop near me that sells them. If you'd like to pm me your address I'll happily send you some next week

These might have some

www.sweetreminisce.co.uk

@Justonedayatatime11 that’s very kind of you but I’ve got a feeling that the ones I remember aren’t made anymore.

No worries, just thought I'd offer as we have a few traditional sweet shops here!