Sømods Bolcher
A working boiled-sweet factory and shop off Nørregade, in its fifth family generation, where the candy is still pulled by hand.
Sømods Bolcher has been making boiled sweets in Copenhagen since 1891, when the candy kitchen was started at Nørregade 49. It passed to Martin Søemod in 1920 and then to his youngest son Theodor, whose name it still carries, and in 1932 it moved to the courtyard building at Nørregade 36, where it has stayed. The family is now in its fifth generation of candy makers, and the business holds an appointment to the Royal Danish Court.
The method has not changed either: sugar boiled, coloured, pulled by hand over a hook, rolled out, cut and cooled. Production is demonstrated in the shop on weekdays at 10.15, 12.00, 13.30 and 15.00, and it is the reason to come.
The range leans on Danish classics — liquorice above all, with dameskrå and cough candies alongside newer flavours.
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