Lollipops Handmade In Beijing Gardens During New Year Celebrations; Lollipop Making Out Of Boiling Sugar

Amongst all the celebrations of the Chinese New Year, a fair was held in the Grand View Gardens, Beijing, with many attractions to enjoy, including the making of lollipops. All the lollipops were handmade but were not the apple on a stick type, but rather artistically formed impressions of birds and fish, made by pouring boiled sugar onto a flat surface. These sugar-lollipops were very popular with the children, although they may not have appreciated the artistic results of the lollipop man.

Proof of the artistic talent involved in the making of the lollipops was the fact that the lollipop man used no drawing nor mold to form the lollipop, but skillfully poured the liquid sugar as if it was a hand held brush. Thick and thin lines, straight and curved lines, all in hot sugar liquid formed the bird or fish, that eventually became the handmade lollipop.

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*** A lollipop, pop, lolly, sucker, or sticky-pop is a type of confectionery consisting mainly of hardened, flavored sucrose with corn syrup mounted on a stick and intended for sucking or licking.[1] They are available in many flavors and shapes.

Lollipops are available in a number of colors and flavors, particularly fruit flavors. In the Nordic countries, Germany and the Netherlands, salmiak-flavored lollipops are also available, but these are largely unknown in other parts of the world. With numerous companies producing lollipops, the candy now comes in dozens of flavors and many different shapes. They range from small ones which can be bought by the hundred and are often given away for free at banks, barbershops, etc., to very large ones made out of candy canes twisted into a circle. Src:Wikipedia.Org ***