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The first thing you will notice is that Gordon and Durward are not just Retailers as we manufacture a fantastic, huge range of traditional Scottish Sweets. Mouth watering Butter Tablets, Macaroons, Fudges, Coated Dates, Gingers, Marzipans, with Marzipan Cherry Slice and Marzipan Walnut Slice, Coconut Ice and the one thing we are probably most renowned for Sugar Mice, plus lots more. Then just to top it all off we have a great range of Tartan Gift Boxes, filled with Tablet, Macaroon, Fudge and Drambuie Truffle.
Everything for those with a sweet tooth, particularly if you have a liking for Scottish sweeties.
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Exert from the Scotsman of the 16th of May 2007 “Recommends” supplement.
No 1 Best Sweet Shop in Scotland:
Gordon & Durward, 14 West High St, Crieff
Quaint, old style sweet shop in Crieff and home of the “famous sugar mice”. With enough mixed boilings to melt the nations teeth and a sweet factory in the back where you can gawp for hours at them hand making their sugary offerings. It trumps other sweet shops hands down for the quality of their produce, particularly mouth-watering macaroon, finger-licking fudge and quite possibly the best tablet in Scotland. |
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Traditional Methods
We only use the very best of Ingredients, and probably just as importantly we still use traditional Copper Boilers. So our Fudge is the way it should be, moist, sweet, buttery, full of flavour, and with that gorgeous texture that only comes from a Copper Boiler! We do try to tell every one that the calories are all removed but no one believes us.
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Home Home is the historic market, town of Crieff, on the edge of Highland Perthshire. From our premises on the High Street you are welcome to visit us and see our skilled team hard at work.
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History
Gordon and Durward was started in 1925, the name originating from the founders Mr & Mrs Durward, Mrs Durward having the Maiden name of Gordon. They sold up in 1947 to George and Daisy Anderson, George was known locally as Sweetie Geordie, the business continued under the careful eye of the Anderson’s son John and his wife Pamela until they retired in 1989 and sold to a well known Crieff family the Donaldson’s, of Donaldson’s Garage and Donaldson’s Oil. Graham and Caroline Donaldson have over the past 15 years steadily expanded the business to a point were the brand of Gordon and Durward is to be found all over Scotland and England in the finest retailers. If you would like to retail any of our products please click here for our Wholesale section. Graham recalls as a boy visiting a local farm, and being told as he was handed a sweetie from the farmers fluffy pocket to “spit the first sook oot.” Despite this a sweet tooth and a love of Scottish sweeties has developed.
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What is available on the site Not only are we proud to offer you our extensive range of our own tasty Gordon and Durward confections, but we have gone out and searched for the few remaining Scottish manufacturers who are upholding the great Scottish Tradition of fine confectionery manufacture. You will find names that you may have thought were gone for ever, McCowan’s Highland Toffee, Buchanan’s Boilings like the old favourites of Russian Caramels, Italian Creams, and Toffee Perfections, Ross’s of Edinburgh, world famous for their Edinburgh Rock, Oddfellows, and Pandrops, Duncan’s Chocolate , and lastly Jenny’s of Edinburgh who make some of the nicest Boilings available like Soor Plooms, Lucky Tatties, Rhubarb Rock and many more. |
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Exert from the Courier on the 11th of July 2008
Customers can choose in their own sweet time
THE SWEET-TOOTHED residents of a Perthshire town will never be late again thanks to a fantastic creation that Willie Wonka himself would be proud of.
Gordon & Durward's sweet shop has been a fixture of life in Crieff for decades and generations of youngsters have spent many happy hours gazing longingly through the window.
Now they will be able to check just how long they have spent fantasising about everything from sugar mice to macaroons thanks to the new addition of a rather tasty-looking grandfather clock.
The fabulous timepiece- which is in full working order-has been created from thousands of delicious sweet treats.
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Shop owner Graham Donaldson said the clock had taken more than two months to create, but was a real labour of love.
"We just thought it would look really nice in the window and we are pretty pleased with how it has turned out," he said.
"It did take a lot of work and it was certainly a major undertaking.
"Kathleen Cowie, a student who has worked with us throughout her studies, made the frame and then my wife Caroline, who is a pastry chef and quite artistic, covered it in sweets."
Graham put the mechanism in place and was delighted to set the pendulum swinging for the first time.
"It is a nice feature and since it is proving to be a bit of a talking point we decided to try and make some cash for charity out of it," he said.
"We have surrounded the bottom of the clock with Jelly Belly beans and are asking customers to pay 50p to guess how many there are.
"I suppose we could have asked how many sweets it took to make the clock but there is no way I am going to count them all!" Graham added.
All proceeds will go to Breast Cancer Care and the customer who comes closest to the correct total will win a hamper packed with tasty treats.
Previously the window of Gordon & Durward featured a fat lady made of sweets.
"She was looking a bit tired so we had to retire her," Graham said.
And as soon as he realised it was time for a change, a grandfather clock was the obvious option.
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