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''. 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.

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was given three sugar loaves and a barrel of sucket by Lady Yorke as a New Year's Day gift in 1562. She ate sucket at Kenilworth Castle in 1575.

Mary, Queen of Scots Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was List of Scottish monarchs, Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legit ...

, ate it as a prisoner at Tutbury Castle.

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