Chocolate sweets - origin and types; selection and storage of sweets; benefit and harm; the secret of cooking at home. These strange candies What are chocolates

More recently, we figured out how it could happen that. But many are aware that this is not the strangest name. You can also recall "Crow's feet", "Cancer necks", "Kara-Kum" and "Bird's milk" for example. Well, how could people have enough imagination to call sweet foods - sweets?

Ekaterina Bushmarinova will tell us about this now:

You don't need to be a naming expert to understand what a potential buyer expects from the name and appearance of a candy. Ideally, they should non-verbally communicate at least some information about the product to the buyer. At the same time, the wrapper should attract attention, and the name should be positive and memorable.

Unfortunately, the last two characteristics (positivity and memorability) sometimes come into serious conflict. For example, “Kara-Kum” literally translates as “black sand” (Turkic) and reminds of the harsh and bleak desert climate, while the petrel, as we all know from the work of the same name by M. Gorky, portends a storm (perhaps in the stomach). "Paws", "necks" and "bird's milk" are too physiological, and it is not very clear what they do in sweets.

Almost all of these names appeared long ago and are overgrown with legends.

Everything is most obvious with “Bird's Milk”: sweets of the same name (with a marshmallow filling, an analogue of our marshmallow, but without an egg) in the 1930s. were popular in Poland. Thirty years later, our confectioners created their own version of Bird's Milk, subsequently starting to use agar-agar as a gelling agent. The name was kept. For some reason, it is believed that it is associated with Aristophanes' play "Birds", in which happiness is promised in the form of "milk", "yes, not heifers, but birds." I read the play and doubted it. This is actually a satirical work, it is unlikely that the Poles wanted to call their sweets "Supposedly happiness." I think that everything is simple here: the phrase "bird's milk" is a synonym for something magically beautiful, unattainable, there is a Russian proverb: "Everything is there, besides bird's milk." Probably, the authors of the name of the sweets wanted it to be associated with a fairy tale, with abundance, a “full cup”, the acquisition of some wonder, the final touch, which was not enough for the fullness of life.

The composition of Kara-Kum sweets contains waffle crumbs, it crunches on the teeth (like sand). On all Kara-Kum candy wrappers you can see camels and the desert, but for some reason there are also palm trees on some, and earlier, they say, there were pyramids.

The version about the Ukrainian origin of the name of the candies "Radiy" ("happy") does not stand up to criticism, the atom is drawn there! So, most likely, this is the name from the conditional series "Scientific and technical progress", which also includes candies "Cosmic" and "Stratosphere".

“Goose feet” and “Cancer necks” began to be produced back in the days of the “Partnership of A.I. Abrikosov and Sons”, established in 1880, and in 1899 awarded the honorary title “Supplier of the Court of His Imperial Majesty” (since 1922 - the Babaev Confectionery Factory, since 1998 - the Babaevsky Confectionery Concern). They say that both names were invented by Alexei Abrikosov himself. The cephalothorax is the most delicious and fleshy part of cancer, a delicacy. Sometimes it is called the neck, sometimes the tail. Abrikosov discovered the outward resemblance of the new candy to a boiled crayfish neck and suggested such a name. As for the "crow's feet", opinions differ here. There is a version that in the manufacture of this delicacy, confectioners used goose fat as a thickener. But, even if this is so, the desire to perpetuate this experiment in such an unusual name is questionable. Moreover, at first this very caramel was not called “Goose paws” at all, but “Duck noses”.

It is known that Aleksey Abrikosov, the head of the confectionery dynasty, paid much attention to the promotion of products, often using non-standard methods for this. For example, one day a newspaper “duck” appeared - a message that in one of the shops of the Abrikosov Partnership only blondes work as sellers, and in another - only brunettes. Everyone went to watch! And, of course, we bought a lot of sweets. Abrikosov attached great importance to the packaging of products. To create candy wrappers, Abrikosov invited professional painters, the packaging workshop, which employed 30 people, was headed by the famous artist Fedor Shemyakin. It was the "Apricot" candy wrappers and advertising posters that were among the first designed in the Art Nouveau style, using floral and animal motifs. For example, in an advertisement for Liliput marmalade (also not a very pleasant name, by the way), the image of white hares was used, and on a poster advertising Tsarsky marmalade, three herons stood “knee-deep” in the water and carefully examined river water lilies.

Abrikosov came up with a method for making caramel with filling - a tube of caramel was blown out, filled with filling and cut with a hot knife into small pieces, which were sealed on both sides. Maybe the first caramels produced in this way seemed to Abrikosov like duck noses? Or maybe he gave the candy such a name in order to continue the animalistic theme in advertising and packaging.

Still, mostly sweet products are designed for children, and it is more interesting for children to look at candy wrappers depicting animals and birds than with historical plots (which Abrikosov's candy wrappers were also famous for).

There is an intuitive design of candy packaging. For example, caramel "Lemonchiki" (confectionery factory "Rot-Front") in shape, color and intensity of the latter resembles the fruit of the same name, in the composition - citrus decoction and flavoring identical to the natural "Lemon". A logical name, a yellow candy wrapper with green letters (yellow and green colors combined together evoke associations with a sour taste). Caramel "Snowball" of the same manufacturer - white, crunches on the teeth, a wrapper in white and blue "frosty" colors with painted snowflakes. Or caramel "Dream", also mouth-front. Of course, “dream” is an abstract concept, but it is clear that the creator of the name simply keeps silent, but wanted to say: “Not candy, but a dream!”. The image of a dream candy is successfully complemented by a pink and white "girly" candy wrapper. Of the chocolates, one can recall the "Golden Domes", dome-shaped sweets in gold foil.

But, alas, “Truffle” sweets are also made in the form of a dome (or mushroom), while the first real French truffle sweets from a creamy “ganache” mass, consisting of chocolate and cream, were made in the form of a not perfect ball - and named so precisely because of the external resemblance to the most expensive mushroom - the truffle, which for a long time was considered a dish accessible only to very rich people. The hat of the truffle mushroom does not look like the hat of our Truffle sweets at all!

The adoption of amendments to the law on trademarks in 2008 led to the appearance of a number of strange, and sometimes simply curious names of sweets, as a result of which the right to use the “old” names remained only with the capital holding United Confectioners. All other candy producers had to either buy licenses from the United Confectioners, or stop the production of "Soviet" confectionery, or rename them. You can read about this in the article "Naming in Russian".

And now Uralkonditer produces Umelochka sweets in the wrapper of Belochka sweets, which is familiar to the eye.

The Kazan factory "Zarya" renames "Bird's Milk" into "Bird-Warbler-Zarnichka". JSC "Primorsky Confectioner" now instead of sweets "Vasilek" produces sweets "Vasyok", and instead of "Red Poppy" - "Red Magician". And “Mishka Kosolapy” performed by the Novosibirsk confectionery factory “Lyubava” turned into sweets “Brother from the North came”, moreover, on a wrapper created at one time for “Einem” by industrial artist Emmanuil Manuylov based on Ivan Shishkin’s painting “Morning in a Pine Forest” , a white bear is now depicted next to the brown bears ...

Moreover, the “United Confectioners” apparently also divided the “old names” among themselves, otherwise it is difficult to explain why the “Cockerel - the Golden Comb” “remained” with Krasny Oktyabr, and the Babaevsky concern (Penza confectionery factory) produces sweets of a similar recipe with a frightening pseudo-folklore name "Cockerel - butter head".

Confectionery factory "AtAg" (IP Yu. A. Atomyan) (Sheksna, Vologda region) amazes with the variety of packaging of sweets and the unbridled imagination of the authors of their names. For example, this company produces chocolate-coated sweets with creamy filling, halva and sunflower seeds in a nice pale yellow and brown wrapper with sunflowers on it. And these sweets are called "Light of the Soul"! The title is ambivalent to me. On the one hand, it is sunny, of course. On the other hand, still, it seems to me, should be avoided in the names of food products, i.e. objects of potential inward use, such words as "soul", "God", "Universe", etc.

However, the same factory "AtAg" also has completely unexpected names for sweets - "Mama Zhenya", "Stoker Petya" (in shiny candy wrappers that differ in color depending on the taste of sweets, and they come with the taste of coconut, sesame, orange in chocolate, etc.) and the outrageous "Bite of a Woman". Of course, it is difficult to consider the word “Force Majeure” as a good name for sweets (force majeure means force majeure circumstances, for example, natural disasters that prevent the parties from fulfilling contractual obligations). However, AtAg produces a line of such sweets. How it sounds: “Force majeure with the taste of “Custard”!”

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Bushmarinova Ekaterina, Author Unipack.Ru

Caramel "Snowball" of the same manufacturer - white, crunches on the teeth, a wrapper in white and blue "frosty" colors with painted snowflakes. Or caramel "Dream", also mouth-front. Of course, “dream” is an abstract concept, but it is clear that the creator of the name simply keeps silent, but wanted to say: “Not candy, but a dream!”. The image of a dream candy is successfully complemented by a pink and white "girly" candy wrapper. Of the chocolates, one can recall the "Golden Domes", dome-shaped sweets in gold foil.

But, alas, “Truffle” sweets are also made in the form of a dome (or mushroom), while the first real French truffle sweets from the “ganache” creamy mass, which consisted of chocolate and cream, were made in the form of an imperfect ball - and named so precisely because of the resemblance to the most expensive mushroom - the truffle, which for a long time was considered a dish accessible only to very rich people. The hat of the truffle mushroom does not look like the hat of our Truffle sweets at all!

And now Uralkonditer produces Umelochka sweets in the wrapper of Belochka sweets, which is familiar to the eye.

The Kazan factory "Zarya" renames "Bird's Milk" into "Bird-Warbler-Zarnichka". OJSC "Primorsky Confectioner" now produces "Vasek" sweets instead of "Vasilek" sweets, and "Red Magician" instead of "Red Poppy". And “Mishka Kosolapy” performed by the Novosibirsk confectionery factory “Lyubava” turned into sweets “Brother from the North came”, moreover, on a wrapper created at one time for “Einem” by industrial artist Emmanuil Manuylov based on Ivan Shishkin’s painting “Morning in a Pine Forest” , a white bear is now depicted next to the brown bears ...

Candy types

Depending on the composition of candy masses, fillings (cases), sweets are divided into fondant, fruit, liqueur, nut, cream, roasted, whipped, etc.

Unglazed sweets Depending on the filling (case), the following types are produced.

fondant candy obtained by churning boiled sugar-treacle syrup, adding flavoring and aromatic substances (coffee, cocoa, nuts, acids, vanillin, etc.). Sweets are used in sugar and milk-cream.

Varieties of sugar fudge: Delicate, Fruity, Kievskaya (sprinkled with sugar, it comes in different shapes and colors).

Varieties of creamy fudge: Dairy, Creamy, Herringbone, Cow, School, Theater fudge, Start, etc.

nut candies obtained from roasted nuts, ground with powdered sugar, cocoa, wine, nuts, vanillin, etc.

Varieties of nut sweets: Carnival with cashew nuts and cinnamon, Rebus (with corn), Little Humpbacked Horse, etc. They are released wrapped.

marzipan candies produced from non-roasted nuts, ground with sugar or sugar-syrup syrup, flavoring and aromatic substances are added. Fruits, vegetables and marzipan figures are on sale.

puff candy consist of two or three layers of candy masses, most often these are fondant, milk, fondant-fruit masses.

Varieties of two-layer sweets: Moth, Sport and three-layer - Arctic, Pioneer, Dolly, Golden Autumn, etc.

Candies glazed with chocolate consist of a filling (body) and a chocolate shell. They are released with different fillings (body).

Sweets with fondant fillings prepared by churning boiled sugar-treacle syrup with flavoring and aromatic substances (wine, nuts, cocoa, coffee, vanillin, etc.).

Varieties of sweets made from sugar fudge: Muse, Medok, Natalka-Poltavka, Citron, etc.; from fruit fudge - Fragrant, Autumn Garden, etc. Candies from fudge - Podmoskovnye, Mocha, Mir, Carnation, Fantasy, Aelita. This group also includes candies Chamomile, Cornflower, Spring, Swallow, etc.

Sweets with fruit fillings obtained by boiling fruit and berry puree with sugar syrup, gelling agents can be added. For these sweets, wine, acids, brews, etc. are used.

Varieties: Round dance, Michurinsky, Northern Lights, Summer, Circus, Southern night, Nizhny Novgorod.

Candies with marzipan fillings made from raw nuts, which are ground with powdered sugar or sugar-syrup syrup, flavoring agents are added. Varieties: Elbrus (with condensed milk), Almond (with coconut oil).

Sweets with nut fillings made from roasted nuts, rubbing them with sugar: powdered; flavoring substances are wine, cocoa powder, nuts, butter, vanillin, corn, etc.

Varieties of these sweets: Come on, take it away (with cocoa butter), Golden Field (with wine and cocoa powder, sprinkled with waffle crumbs on top), Miracle (with cocoa powder, butter, corn, cognac), Enchantress (with cocoa powder, milk powder and cinnamon), Moscow (made from nut-chocolate mass, corn, honey and milk), Squirrel (from nut mass and chopped nuts). This group of sweets also includes: Kara-Kum, Baltika, Mask, Ladoga, Salut, etc.

Candies with nut fillings in wafers: Bear in the North (nut filling is located between two layers of wafers), Bear-toed (contains more cocoa butter and chocolate icing), Melody (consists of a chocolate-milk mass located between two layers of wafers), Gift (of three layers of wafers with two nut-chocolate layers). This group also includes sweets - Sadko, Chocolate and coffee, etc.

Sweets with whipped fillings obtained by churning sugar with egg white or other foaming agents, fruit puree, wine, milk, nuts and other flavors are added. Varieties: Goldfish (with nuts and milk), Anniversary (with milk, cognac), Stratosphere (with apricot puree and nuts), Bird's milk (consists of a creamy mass, the filling includes protein, butter, milk and flavoring substances). Depending on the additions, these candies come with creamy, chocolate, raspberry, plum, strawberry, lemon and blackcurrant fillings. Whipped sweets also include Zoological, Soufflé and Spring.

Sweets with liqueur fillings prepared from sugar-treacle syrup, which is boiled down, wine, cognac, alcohol, fruit puree, etc. are added. The boiled mass is poured into starch molds and cooled. In this case, the upper layer hardens, a crust is formed, inside which the mass remains liquid, then the body is glazed with chocolate.

Varieties of sweets: Chocolate bottles, Bronze horseman, Ruslan and Lyudmila, Cherry liqueur. These sweets are placed in capsules or wrapped.

Sweets with cream fillings obtained from chocolate, chocolate-nut or fondant mass. It is ground by adding cocoa mass, coconut or butter, nuts, wine, vanillin, etc. .

Varieties: Truffles (chocolate mass pounded with coconut oil, wine and vanilla), Russian souvenir (consists of milk chocolate cream and cognac), Coffee aroma (made of milk chocolate cream and coffee). This group includes Strela, Red Moscow, Extra, Kolos, Krylov's Fables, etc.

Candies with roasted fillings obtained by boiling sugar-treacle syrup, crushed nut kernels or oilseeds and other flavoring substances.

Varieties: Grillage in chocolate, Grillage honey, Fantasia (with corn and butter), Amateur (with puffed corn).

Sweets with combined fillings There are two and three layers. Most often they consist of fruit and milk fudge, liqueur and fruit-marmalade mass. These include the following varieties: Raspberry (top and bottom fudge layer, medium fruity), Lakomka (two layers of milk fudge and sugar liquor), Dawn (has fondant and jelly layers), Queen of Spades (made of fudge and liqueur layer ).

What it is?

The very word "candy" came into Russian from Italian, where confetto means "pill, candy." Initially, it was used by Italian pharmacists to name candied pieces of fruit - candied fruit, sold as medicines. The plural form - "candy" - appeared somewhat later in the 19th century, when Italian carnivals became popular, in which participants threw confetti at each other - fake plaster candies.

Today, sweets mean sweet confectionery products that are different in shape, appearance, taste and texture.

What are they like?

The modern assortment of sweets is so large that confectioners have come up with many classifications. We are also interested in what types of sweets we can buy in the store, the names of which may differ slightly from different manufacturers. The most popular and in demand by Russian buyers:

Caramel. Consists of molasses and sugar.
Lollipops. One of the easiest confections to make, made by boiling molasses, sugar or corn syrup. The resulting composition is flavored and poured into special forms. The name of the candies is listed below.

Candy on a stick;

Lollipops in a paper wrapper;

Soft lollipops - monpasier;

Licorice or salty sweets;

Elongated or oblong candy shape. The names and photos of such "pencils" and "sticks" are presented below.

Souffle, for example, "Bird's Milk", which may also be called "Wonderful Bird", "Bogorodskaya Bird", "Zimolyubka" and others;

Grillage, obtained from crushed nuts filled with sugar, fruit or honey syrup. These are sweets such as "Roasting in Chocolate", "Rillage Fairy Tale", "Strawberry Roasting" and others;

Praline - chocolate sweets stuffed with nuts ground with sugar and cocoa mixed with cognac or some other flavoring: "Bud", "Babaevsky", "Shokonatka", "Juliet";

Liquor sweets contain inside the filling of liquor or sugar syrup with cognac: "Cream liqueur", "Liquor in chocolate", "Blue Velvet";

In sweets with jelly filling under a layer of chocolate there is a thick berry or fruit jelly: "Lel", "Southern Night", "Lebedushka", "Zaliv" and others;

- "Fudge" or sweets with fondant filling obtained from milk, molasses, cream, sugar, fruit fillers and other components: "Miya", "Rakhat", "Spanish Night" and others;

Truffles are elite round-shaped chocolate sweets filled with a special French cream - ganache. It is made from butter, cream, chocolate and various flavorings. The outer surface can be coated with crushed or ground nuts, wafer crumbs or cocoa powder.

chocolate stories

Chocolate sweets loved by many appeared thanks to the famous navigator - Hernando Cortes, who discovered the American continent. It was he and his associates who brought cocoa beans to Europe and introduced Europeans to chocolate. The monk Benzoni contributed to the fact that chocolates began to be regularly consumed to maintain the health of the Spanish monarch, and after him his courtiers. Subsequently, the fashion for chocolates spread to other countries, where influential people used them as a medicine. Until the 17th century, only Spanish confectioners made chocolate and sweets from it, and sent sweets to many royal courts. Over time, the secret of making chocolate sweets became known to other countries, but until the end of the 17th century they were made only by hand.

How did sweets appear in Russia?

The first confectionery factory for the production of chocolates was opened at the end of the 17th century by the French confectioner David Shelley. Until the 19th century, Russia did not have its own candy production, and the delicacy was brought from abroad, or prepared by special chefs in the kitchens in the homes of rich nobles. The first Russian confectionery factory was opened in St. Petersburg only in the middle of the 19th century.

What was candy called before?

As already mentioned, until the 19th century, sweets were either imported into our country from abroad, or produced at home in the estates and palaces of nobles. For sweets made at home, descriptive names were given, taking into account the shape, method of preparation, size, fruits and fruits used. The book “The New Perfect Russian Confectioner, or a Detailed Confectionery Dictionary”, published at the end of the 18th century in St. Petersburg, contains such funny names for us as sweets such as Strawberry Cakes and Green Apricots in Caramel, Jasmine Candies and Anise Sugar Snacks, Cherry Marzipans and Apricots in candies.

Industrial names

The opening of the first Russian confectionery factory led to the fact that already at the beginning of the 20th century, many different varieties of sweets appeared. At first, French recipes and names of sweets prevailed, the list of which was not very long:

"Baton de Gralier";
"Finchampagne";
"Cream de risien";
"boule de gome";
"Cream de Noison";
"Maron Praline" and others.

Over time, the French name of chocolates began to be translated into Russian, and “Creamy Venus”, “Cat's Tongue”, “Girl's Skin”, “Salon” appeared on sale, decorated in accordance with Russian grammar. However, in some cases, bilingual names of sweets were also used, for example, "Studded with pearls, or Coriandor perle." Russian confectioners called the new sweets they created themselves in Russian and often used names associated with the images of the fair sex: “Sophie”, “Marianna”, “Merry Widow”, “Rybachka”, “Marsala”. Educational series were also produced, for example, "The Riddle". A simple riddle was placed on the wrapper of such sweets. Before the revolutionary events of 1917, chocolate series "Sport", "Geographical Atlas", "Peoples of Siberia" and others were produced.

Until the October Revolution of 1917, it was possible to buy Tsarskaya Raspberry or Tsar Fyodor Mikhailovich caramel. After him, the names of sweets changed dramatically. Caramels "Krestyanskaya" and "Krasnoarmeiskaya", "Hammer and Sickle" and "Our Industry" appeared on sale.
However, chocolates for the most part retain their French names: Dernier Cree, Miniature, Chartreuse, Bergamot, Pepperment and others. Such neutral names as "Squirrels", "Tomboys" and "Bunnies" did not undergo ideological rethinking. The Soviet names for the new sweets reflected current events and achievements. So in the 30s of the last century, the following were produced: “Fight for equipment”, “Be ready”, “Sabantuy”, “Milkmaid”, “Chelyuskintsy”, “Heroes of the Arctic”, “Winner of the Ice”.

The conquest of space by man in the 60s of the XX century was reflected in the appearance of the candies "Cosmic" and "Cosmos".
Around the same time, it became popular to introduce the names of fairy-tale and literary characters into the names of chocolates: "Snow Maiden", "La Bayadere", "Blue Bird", "Sadko", "Little Red Riding Hood" and others.

For most people, sweets are a favorite delicacy that can not only please with their taste, but also cheer up and add energy. These sweets of various types have been prepared for several centuries, and the name of the sweets (the list of which is presented in the article) has changed significantly during this time.

This article will talk about what types of sweet treats are produced today by confectionery enterprises, how they differ and what they are called.

When did they appear?

Sweet treats, the forerunners of our favorite sweets, have been loved in different countries since ancient times. So the culinary specialists of Ancient Egypt created sweets from honey, lemon balm, toffee roots, cane and dates, and the ancient Romans - from boiled poppy seeds, nuts, honey mass and sesame. In Russia, they loved a delicacy made from maple syrup, honey and molasses.

Sweets, outwardly similar to modern ones, began to be produced only in the 16th century in Italy. This is due to the fact that sugar was established, without which it is impossible to make sweets. Initially, it was believed that this is a rather strong drug, and it was sold only in pharmacies. Over time, candied fruits in sugar, it was they who received the names of sweets, ceased to be considered medicines, and became popular sweets.

What it is?

The very word "candy" came into Russian from Italian, where confetto means "pill, candy." Initially, it was used by Italian pharmacists to name candied pieces of fruit - candied fruit, sold as medicines. The form - "candy" - appeared a little later in the 19th century, when Italian carnivals became popular, in which participants threw confetti at each other - fake plaster candies.

Today, sweets mean sweet confectionery products of various shapes, tastes and textures.

What are they like?

Caramel. Consists of molasses and sugar.
Lollipops. One of the easiest to manufacture is the molasses, sugar or sugar obtained as a result of cooking. The resulting composition is flavored and poured into special forms. The name of the candies is listed below.

Candy on a stick;

Lollipops in a paper wrapper;

Soft lollipops - Monpasier;

Licorice or salty sweets;

Elongated or oblong candy shape. The names and photos of such "pencils" and "sticks" are presented below.

Souffle, for example, "Bird's Milk", which may also be called "Wonderful Bird", "Bogorodskaya Bird", "Zimolyubka" and others;

Grillage, obtained from crushed nuts filled with sugar, fruit or honey syrup. These are sweets such as "Roasting in Chocolate", "Rillage Fairy Tale", "Strawberry Roasting" and others;

Pralines - chocolate candies stuffed with nuts ground with sugar and cocoa mixed with cognac or some other flavoring: "Bud", "Babaevsky", "Choconatka", "Juliet";

Liquor sweets contain inside the filling of liquor or sugar syrup with cognac: "Cream liqueur", "Liquor in chocolate", "Blue Velvet";

In sweets with jelly filling under a layer of chocolate there is a thick berry or fruit jelly: "Lel", "Southern Night", "Lebedushka", "Zaliv" and others;

- "Fudge" or sweets with fondant filling obtained from milk, molasses, cream, sugar, fruit fillers and other components: "Miya", "Rakhat", "Spanish Night" and others;

chocolate stories

Chocolate sweets loved by many appeared thanks to the famous navigator Hernando Cortez, who discovered the American continent. It was he and his associates who brought cocoa beans to Europe and introduced Europeans to chocolate. The monk Benzoni contributed to the fact that chocolates began to be regularly consumed to maintain the health of the Spanish monarch, and after him his courtiers. Subsequently, the fashion for chocolates spread to other countries, where influential people used them as a medicine. Until the 17th century, only Spanish confectioners made chocolate and sweets from it, and sent sweets to many royal courts. Over time, the secret of making chocolate sweets became known to other countries, but until the end of the 17th century they were made only by hand.

How did sweets appear in Russia?

What was candy called before?

Industrial names

"Baton de Gralier";
"Finchampagne";
"Cream de risien";
"boule de gome";
"Cream de Noison";
"Maron Praline" and others.

However, chocolates for the most part retain their French names: Dernier Cree, Miniature, Chartreuse, Bergamot, Pepperment and others. Such neutral names as "Squirrels", "Tomboys" and "Bunnies" did not undergo ideological rethinking. The Soviet names for the new sweets reflected current events and achievements. So in the 30s of the last century, the following were produced: “Fight for equipment”, “Be ready”, “Sabantuy”, “Milkmaid”, “Chelyuskintsy”, “Heroes of the Arctic”, “Winner of the Ice”.

The conquest of space by man in the 60s of the XX century was reflected in the appearance of the candies "Cosmic" and "Cosmos".

Around the same time, it became popular to introduce literary characters into the names of chocolates: "Snow Maiden", "La Bayadere", "Blue Bird", "Sadko", "Little Red Riding Hood" and others.

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