Love pearls
Love pearls are dragees made of sugar with a diameter of a few millimeters, colored in various colors . They are often offered at folk festivals and fairs.
The first love pearls were made in 1908 in the Rudolf Hoinkis confectionery factory in Görlitz , which was founded on August 16, 1896 and still exists today . The name of the candy is said to have been suggested by the wife of the inventor Rudolf Hoinkis (1876–1944) when he brought the sugar globules home with him on Friday, April 3, 1908. According to legend, he introduced the innovation to wife and son with the words: He loves them as much as the pearls, for which he does not yet have a name. Whereupon his wife Elfriede suggested the name "love pearls".
Manufacturing
Love pearls are made from grape sugar , sugar water and food coloring by coating . The core of the love pearls consists of a single sugar crystal . It must have a certain size and is specially sifted out of the sugar supplied. In inclined rotating copper kettles, these crystals are repeatedly sprayed and scattered with a solution of grape sugar. In about a hundred hours, the core of the crystal is enclosed layer by layer with 60 to 70 dragee covers. Love pearls are sold in more than 22 countries. The packaging of the blue-yellow-green-white-red-orange-colored pearl mixes is shaped like trumpets or umbrellas, crayons and miracle tubes with key fobs, collectible figures and miniature kits. The baby bottles in which they have been offered since 1908 are typical.
similar products
Similar products are sugar sprinkles or nonpareille (French for "incomparable") with a diameter of less than 1 mm, which are used to decorate chocolate products or cookies .
Chocolate pins, on the other hand, have a core made of chocolate.
" Fairy bread " is a sweet dish for children. It consists of white bread with small sugar pearls and is particularly known in Australia and New Zealand.
A similar sweet is common in the Netherlands and Belgium: Hagelslag is a spread with chocolate sprinkles.
Others
One type of plant, the Chinese beautiful fruit , is also known as the love pearl bush because of the similarity of its fruits to love pearls .
literature
- Frank Stadler: The love pearls. 455 pellets in baby bottles, pp. 118–119, in: Klaus Gertoberens (Ed.): Saxon inventions . 1650 until today . 3rd revised and improved edition. edition Sächsische Zeitung SAXO'Phon GmbH, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-938325-31-5 .
Web links
- Marie-Thérèse Nercessian: With the heart and the numbers always in mind , in: Welt Online , November 11, 2016
- Love pearls , in: www.landwirtschaft.sachsen.de. Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology, accessed on December 10, 2008 (entry is similar to the article by Frank Stadler in Saxon Inventions )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Legend of the love pearls. (No longer available online.) In: www.hoinkis.de. Rudolf Hoinkis GmbH, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved December 10, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Frank Stadler: The love pearls. 455 beads in the baby bottle, pp. 118–119, in: Saxon inventions. Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-938325-31-5 .
- ↑ Company tradition for over 100 years. In: www.hoinkis.de. Rudolf Hoinkis GmbH, accessed on December 10, 2014 .
- ↑ Commercial products. (No longer available online.) In: www.hoinkis.de. Rudolf Hoinkis GmbH, archived from the original on June 26, 2012 ; Retrieved December 10, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
