Memory Lane Confectionery

There is more to boiled lollies than just boiling them and according to the experts it is more about chemistry than confectionary. Tony Fleming is a master confectioner who learnt his trade in Europe. Tony was born to make sweets because three generations of his family before him had been confectioners. He was taught by the best how to combine sugar, water and glucose, how to get the timing right and how to knead the mix like bread to add flavour. What Tony learnt over his 50 years in the business is that making good lollies is all about taste, texture and colour. Tony now hands on his recipes and secrets to an apprentice at Memory Lane Confectionery at Edwardstown. The factory produces fruit jewels, peanut brittle, acid drops, aniseed drops, peppermint herbal humbugs and plain and flavoured chocolate. They are all made with 1% fat and no salt, artificial flavourings or preservatives. Although it sounds like an old company, it only came into being in late 1997. It was started by Kym Fettke who had worked as a Bank Manager for 20 years. He decided that most people loved lollies and that the sort they were buying lacked flavour. So he set about convincing his long time friend Tony Fleming to return to work and looked around for old confectionary equipment. He bought some from the 1920s, but such is the competition in this business that some companies refused to sell him their old equipment for fear of creating a new rival. It didn't seem to matter because the key to the taste is Tony's experience.

The company now sells to all parts of Australia and overseas using the internet. Locally anyone is welcome to visit the factory and look in through a glass wall at the confectioners at work. There is also a shop at the factory. In addition to boiled lollies, they make glutine free liquorice blocks, natural herbal throat lozenges and their products are coeliac safe. Memory Lane Confectionery is at 44 Towers Tce Edwardstown and is open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am to 4pm - and its free. For more informaion you can contact info@postcards.sa.com.au