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Succar-candy, Sucker-, Sugar-candie, n. Also: succer-, succour-, succoir-, sucur-, suicur, sukker-, suckir-, suger-, suggar-, sugre-, zuccer-, zuccour-, scouger- and -candé, -candey, -cendie. [ME and e.m.E. sugre candy (1392), sugur candy (c1420), sugar candie (1584), OF sucre candi (13th c. in Larousse), med. L. succar candi.] Sugar-candy, a sweet made from clarified and crystallised sugar.(a) 1495 Halyb. 41.
1 li. sucur candy, cost 12 g[rot]is 1510 Rentale Dunkeld. (SHS) 213.]
[Zucro candey 1510 Rentale Dunkeld. (SHS) 217.
[12 ounces] zuccer candye, [4 s.] 1528 Household Bks. Jas. V 169.
Zuccourcande 1553 Old Ross-shire I 264.
Twey laiffe cannered suicre thrie punds suicur cande 1567 Edinb. Test. I 12b.
Succarcandy 1569 Edinb. Test. I 285a.
Twa bustis of quhyt succer and sum succer candy 1575 Edinb. Test. III 319.
Sucker candie 1576 Edinb. Test. IV 154b.
Sukker candie 1579 Treas. Acc. XIII 271.
Succour candy 1611 Inverness Rec. II 86.
Thow sta avay fourtie pundis money, … ane leiff succour candie 1615 Reg. Privy S. 21 Nov.
Item ane unce of succoircandie quhilk wes wet and rinnand 1618 Bk. Dunvegan I 117.
Suger cendie 1667 Old Ross-shire I 60.
For suggar candie when they had the cold 12 s. 1668 Boyd Fam. P. No. 289.
2 once sugre candie 1670 Boyd Fam. P. No. 299.
Suckir candie 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. i 22.
We who here drink sack and Brandy, Well tempered with Suggar-Candy 1684 Lauder Notices Affairs II 506.(b) 1652–3 Sc. Hist. Rev. XIII 414.
Pound of scouger candie £3 12 s.
b. Broun, gray, reid, quhyt succar candy, with reference to various stages in the crystallisation of sugar. 1578 Edinb. Test. VI 63b.
vij pund of sukker candie broun price of the pund … ix s. 1585 Edinb. Test. XIV 253b.
Reid sukker candie price of the pund xs … of gray sucker candie price of the pund xviij s. … of quhyt sucker candie price of the pund xx s. 1596 Edinb. Test. XXIX 162b.
Broun sucker candie at xv s. the pund 1703 Foulis Acc. Bk. 316.
For whyt suger candie 4 unces [6 s. 8 d.]
c. comb. 1681 Blackness Customs 22b.
Threety bundells of wood for sugar candy boxes
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