Star rock

{{Short description|Scottish confection}}

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| alternative_name = Starry rock, starrie

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| place_of_origin = Scotland

| region = Angus

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| main_ingredient = Sugar, golden syrup, margerine, flavouring

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Star rock is a distinctive Scottish form of confectionery rock. It is also sometimes known as starry rock, or starrie.Robinson, Mairi, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=3CGt3hf7N9kC&dq=%22star+rock%22+kirriemuir&pg=PA664 starrie]", The Concise Scots Dictionary. Accessed October 1, 2007{{Cite web|url=https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/starrie|title=Dictionary of the Scots Language:: SND:: starrie}} It is traditionally handmade in Kirriemuir, Angus.

Star rock is less hard and brittle than traditional seaside rock, bearing more resemblance to a particularly hard toffee. Each stick of rock has a diameter similar to a pencil, and it is about 4 inches (10 centimetres) in length. Sticks are not sold individually but packaged in a paper-wrapped bundle. The rock is swirling shades of gold, which reflect its major ingredients: sugar, golden syrup, margarine, and flavoring. It has been claimed that these swirls give the rock its name because, in cross-section, they look like a star.

Unlike seaside rock, star rock does not have writing embedded in it.