re: the reason for the acid
The acids (and cooking) will invert some fraction of the sucrose into glucose and fructose. Not very much given what I know of the recipe but enough to improve the texture of the sugar bricks.
Still being essentially pure sugar (even if no longer pure sucrose), the brick will have the same desiccant effect on bacteria as honey.
Mike Rossander
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