Old Style Sweet Jars

Spendless

The newsagents around here still sell out of the big jars, for you to buy a 1/4 of sweets, but the jars are no longer glass they are plastic.
I have a glass jar that I think contained roses. It's about 28 years old, I haven't seen this type of glass jar for many years.

nuttywoman

We bought one a few years ago from Stockleys sweets at Owaldtwistle Mills filled with sweets of our choice.They still sell them i noticed a couple of months ago.They told us that they get them from Italy, so maybe if there`s a sweet factory near you, they might sell them.
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JailhouseBabe

My local chip shop gives away the empty pickled onion/eggs jars. But yes, they're not very large.

janb5

Maybe you could put in a request on your local recycling group. www.freecycle.org maybe on a wish list on Ebay?

tina68

Try sweet stalls in your local market, they often weigh and bag then discard the jar worth asking:j

djohn2002uk

Another great use for sweet jars (as oposed to the pickled onion/egg jars) is for salting runner beans. A truly better alternative to freezing.
For all those in the OS and Green forums who are now taking up growing their own veg, if you slice the beans ready for cooking and put a two inch layer in a sweet jar and cover with one inch of salt and repeat untill the jar is full finishing with salt. They will sink as the salt disolves over the first few days and can be topped up.
These will keep through the winter and all you do is take out enough for a meal and rinse well in cold water and cook. Do not add any salt when cooking. I promise you will not tell the difference from freshly picked beans.
This is where the sweet jars come into their own because you can get your hand in the top.