TYPES
Lollipops are available in a variety of colors and flavors, particularly fruit flavors.
In Europe, especially the Nordic countries, Germany and the Netherlands, salmiakki-flavored lollipops are also available, but these are largely unknown in other parts of the world.
With numerous companies producing lollipops, the candy now comes in dozens of flavors and many different shapes.
They range from small ones which can be bought by the hundred and are often given away for free at banks, barbershops, etc., to very large ones made out of candy canes twisted into a circle.
Some lollipops contain fillings, such as bubble gum or soft candy.
Some novelty lollipops have more unusual items, such as mealworm larvae, embedded in the candy.[2]
Some lollipops have been marketed for use as diet aids, although their effectiveness is untested, and anecdotal cases of weight loss may be due to the power of suggestion.[

HISTORY

The first candy on a stick, according to the National Confectionary Association, was probably created by cavemen who maintained beehives and collected honey by stick.
Not wanting to waste the sweet residue, they, most likely, licked the utensil and thus the first unintentional lollipop, or, candy on a stick, was born.

Lollipops (sometimes spelled lollypops) show up in novels by Charles Dickens and other 19th century writers.
Back then, the word referred to sweet lozenges without a stick.
Lollipops as we know them today began to appear in the United States right before the Civil War; small bits of sugar candy were put on the ends of pencils for children to nibble on.

PROCESS

Lollipops are not complicated to make and do not really require special equipment for home production.
Sugar-corn syrup solutions are cooked until the concentration of the solution reaches a high level, and this supersaturation of sugar remains upon cooling.
A gas or electric stove may be used, with the temperature monitored using a hand-held candy thermometer until it reaches 310°F (154°C), or what is referred to as the hard crack stage. When the concoction is hot (and it is very hot—hot enough to severely burn the skin) it is plastic or malleable, and may be poured into molds that can be purchased in a variety of shapes.
As the solution cools, it takes the shape of the mold, becoming "glass-like," as it may be broken or cracked like a piece of glass.
The home lollipop-maker may add any desired colors or flavorings just before the lollipop is poured into the mold.
Colorings and flavorings are commercially available.
Recently, molds for domestic lollipop-makers have been developed and are easy to obtain.