sugar candy

“Nothing illustrates the Mexican sense of humor and irony toward death more than the sugar-candy skulls that are made for the festivities of the Day of the Dead,” Cruz said, “as if death were sweet to eat and it can disintegrate in our mouths.”

An example of this is sugar-candy, of which a single isolated crystal may have grown freely in a solution of sugar.

Yankee Doodle came to town, Yankee Doodle dandy, He stuck a feather in his cap And called it sugar-candy.

Charley loves good ale and wine, And Charley loves good brandy; And Charley loves a pretty girl, As sweet as sugar-candy.

Is Sharpe's small article like a bit of sugar-candy, too, Ellen? or has it the proper wholesome wormwood flavour?