Sucket

Sucket was a kind of confectionary or dessert popular in early modern England. The word is related to succade, which refers to a kind of dried fruit.

The dish was a sweetmeat involving sugar plums and dried fruit in thick syrup flavoured with ginger and other spices. The dried fruits themselves were called suckets or dry suckets.^[1] As a dessert course, it was sometimes brought to the table in a silver sucket barrel and eaten with silver sucket forks. These seem to have been the earliest table forks used in England.^[2][3]

Elizabeth I was given three sugar loaves and a barrel of sucket by Lady Yorke as a New Year's Day gift in 1562.^[4] She ate sucket at Kenilworth Castle in 1575. Mary, Queen of Scots, ate it as a prisoner at Tutbury Castle.^[5]