Victorian Historians 13 What You Need • Stall or table • Streamers • Brightly coloured cloth • Sweet jars • Ingredients and menus to make a sweet recipe Victorian sweets such as: • Fudge – chocolate or treacle • Marzipan • Liquorice allsorts • Jelly babies • Brandy balls • Clove rock • Pear drops • Coconut ice • Marshmallows • Bonbons • Chocolate limes • Toffee • Wine gums Areas of Learning Primary Language and Literacy Mathematics and Numeracy Post-Primary English Learning for Life and Work (Home Economics) Mathematics 12 Victorian Historians Setting the Scene Sweets and confectionery were a thriving trade in Victorian times. Many of the chocolate and sweets we know today were first manufactured in the nineteenth century. Set up a sweet stall in a corner of your classroom, using brightly coloured cloth and streamers. Place different types of sweets in jars and set these out in rows on the stall. What to Do Seat your learners around the stall. Guide your learners to explore the texture and smell of the sweets and, where appropriate, to taste them. Find a simple sweet recipe that your learners can participate in making, for example chocolate balls covered in coconut or sprinkles. Encourage your learners to take part in stirring the mixture, rolling out the sweet shapes and decorating the finished product. Learning Activity 6 Victorian Sweet Shop

Learning Activity 6 Areas of Learning Victorian Sweet Shop · • Marzipan • Liquorice allsorts • Jelly babies • Brandy balls • Clove rock • Pear drops • Coconut ice •

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Page 1: Learning Activity 6 Areas of Learning Victorian Sweet Shop · • Marzipan • Liquorice allsorts • Jelly babies • Brandy balls • Clove rock • Pear drops • Coconut ice •

Victorian Historians 13

What You Need• Stall or table• Streamers• Brightly coloured cloth• Sweet jars• Ingredients and menus to

make a sweet recipe

Victorian sweets such as:

• Fudge – chocolate or treacle• Marzipan • Liquorice allsorts• Jelly babies• Brandy balls • Clove rock • Pear drops• Coconut ice• Marshmallows• Bonbons• Chocolate limes• Toffee• Wine gums

Areas of LearningPrimaryLanguage and LiteracyMathematics and Numeracy

Post-PrimaryEnglish Learning for Life and Work (Home Economics)Mathematics

12 Victorian Historians

Setting the SceneSweets and confectionery were a thriving trade in Victorian times. Many of the chocolate and sweets we know today were first manufactured in the nineteenth century.

Set up a sweet stall in a corner of your classroom, using brightly coloured cloth and streamers. Place different types of sweets in jars and set these out in rows on the stall.

What to DoSeat your learners around the stall. Guide your learners to explore the texture and smell of the sweets and, where appropriate, to taste them.

Find a simple sweet recipe that your learners can participate in making, for example chocolate balls covered in coconut or sprinkles. Encourage your learners to take part in stirring the mixture, rolling out the sweet shapes and decorating the finished product.

Learning Activity 6

Victorian Sweet Shop