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    "title": "Where to buy sweet jars",
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    "modified": "2026-09-26T08:27:57+01:00",
    "excerpt": "Our trade section sells traditional glass sweet jars with lids, for shop display and for gifts. The history of the sweet shop jar, and how to use one well.",
    "content_text": "Our trade section at sweeties.net sells traditional shop style glass sweet jars with lids, in packs of six, for display on a counter or to fill as gifts. They sit alongside the rest of the kit for a pick and mix counter: see where to buy a pick and mix stand\nA very old picture\nThe sweet shop window full of jars is an old image. In 1825 the writer William Hone described confectioners polishing their tall glass jars for Twelfth Day, filled with peppermint drops, elecampane, sugar sticks, hardbake, brandy balls and bullseyes. Two years later a shop in Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, began selling sweets, and it is still trading today: see the history of the sweet shop and the oldest sweet shop in England\nGlass lets customers see exactly what they are buying, and sweets kept in jars were weighed out by the shopkeeper, traditionally by the quarter pound: see what is a quarter of sweets?\nKeeping sweets in a jar\nA jar is only as good as its lid. For sweets that stay fresh:\nSeal it. Use a lid that closes tightly, so hard sweets do not pull moisture from the air and turn sticky, and soft sweets do not dry out.Keep it cool and dry. Out of direct sunlight and away from heat.Keep kinds apart. Over time, moisture moves from soft, moist sweets into dry, hard ones, so for long storage keep them in separate jars.\nSee how should you store pick and mix?\nThe jar guessing game\nGuessing the number of sweets in a jar is a game played at fetes and parties, and there is science to it: round sweets fill about 64 per cent of the space in a jar, and M&M shaped sweets about 68 to 71 per cent: see how to guess the number of sweets in a jar\nFilling a jar as a gift\nA jar of pick and mix makes a simple present. You can build the mix by the 100 g in our shop, where every sweet's card opens up to show its full ingredients and allergens, which matters when the jar is for someone else.",
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