Liquorice
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Liquorice or licorice is the common name of Glycyrrhiza glabra, a flowering plant of the bean family Fabaceae, from the root of which a sweet, aromatic flavouring is extracted.
Illustration Glycyrrhiza glabra 0
Sections of liquorice root
Black liquorice wheels, a common candy preparation
Liquorice root chips
Pontefract cake
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Pontefract cakes are a type of small, roughly circular black liquorice sweet. They measure approximately 0.75 in wide and 0.16 in thick, and were originally manufactured in the West Yorkshire town of
Liquorice
…wood') to chew on as a candy. Pontefract in Yorkshire, England, is where liquorice mixed with sugar began to be used as a sweet in the contemporary way. Pontefract cakes were originally made there. In Cumbria, County Durham, Yorkshire and Lancashire, it is colloquially known as 'Spanish', supposedly because Spanish monks…
A pile of Pontefract cakes