# Double lollies

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## Summary

Swizzels Double Lollies are pressed fruit tablets on a stick, launched in 1952, the year Elizabeth II came to the throne. What goes into one, and the maker.

## Description

Double Lollies are pressed fruit lollipops made by Swizzels. The UK retailer The Candy King says they were launched in 1952, the same year Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne, and sells them individually wrapped.
What is in them
Swizzels Double Lollies, as listed by The Candy King. Sugar, stearic acid, modified starch, malic acid, cornflour, magnesium stearate, flavourings, magnesium carbonate as an anti caking agent, and the colours anthocyanin, copper chlorophyllin, curcumin, lutein and paprika. The retailer shows them with a vegetarian symbol. An Open Food Facts record for a 154 g pack of Swizzels Double Lollies lists the same ingredients.
Pressed, not boiled
Unlike a boiled sweet lollipop, a Double Lolly is pressed. Powdered sugar is squeezed into a tablet, and magnesium stearate helps: in the production of pressed sweets it works as a release agent, so the mixture does not stick to the machinery. For boiled sweet lollipops, see lollipops, and for another pressed sweet, candy necklaces
All the colours in the recipe here come from plants: anthocyanins, copper chlorophyllin, curcumin, lutein and paprika extract, so the recipe uses none of the six colours that carry a warning for children: see natural colours in sweets
The maker
Swizzels began in the early 1920s on a market stall in Hackney, London, where Maurice and Alfred Matlow sold jellied sweets. They built a small factory in east London in 1928, and in 1933 merged with David Dee, a rival who specialised in fizzy compressed tablet sweets. In 1940 the Blitz forced the business north to a disused wick factory in New Mills, Derbyshire, where it remains. Parma Violets followed in 1946, and Drumstick lollies in 1957: see Love Hearts and Drumstick lollies
Safety
A lolly is a hard sweet on a stick, and the NHS says not to give younger children hard foods such as boiled sweets, because of the risk of choking: see hard sweets and younger children
In our pick and mix
We do not sell Double Lollies. Each sweet we do sell has a card that opens up to show its full ingredients and allergens.

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