Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-02
SUGAR CANDY.
Recent improvements in the Manufacture
of Confectionery.

Recent improvements In the MANUFACTURE
of Confectionery.
The candy trade is afruitful subject OF
discussion. To show the improvements
that has been effected in this branch OF
business and enumerate the varieties OF
candies and the different methods OF
preparation would tire the patience OF
the ordinary reader. The tendency all
the time is to increase the variety and
prepare the sugared dainties in new and
more attractive forms. The demand is
for better candy; that is, purer and less
injurious. Now in all the best candy
manufactures there is little if anything,
of IN injurious nature that enters into
the composition of candy. They are
all willing to have their candy analysed.
In some fine candies the color green
detcrs purchasers from buying, but this
color is derived from the pistache al
mond, which is imported, and is as
healthful an almond in every respect as
the white one. The best confectioners
use many of these green almonds.
The great candy center of the country
is Philadelphia. There the choicest and
best candies are manufactured. New
York comes next in point Of quality and
quantity. Boston is also growing in
Importance in this respect. The best
sugared almonds are to be obtained in
Philadelphia, and are worth sixty cents
per pound. Among the delicacies in
the market at present may be mentioned
paplllotes from France, with lemon
and vanilla tlavoring. 1t has been sold
here since Christmas, and zones in
wafer form. 1t forms a kind of cara
mel, and the glazed candy is filled with
nuts. Pineapple rolls are another fa-
vorite, consisting of a piece of pineap-
pie in q cream roll. This is of recent
date, also.
st. Nick's chocolates are new, and are
manufactured in Philadelphia. The in
terror consists of ground nuts and a
chocolate preparation, surrounded by a
layer of chocolate. Chocolate maraccnes
are made of chocolate, vanilla. and a
small proportion of ground nuts. Choc-
olatina is a compound of chocolate, con-
sisting of a ball coated with cream, with
an outside layer of chocolate. A great
item of the candy trade has been the
g%um-drop. There is always a sale for
gum-drops. Pure drops are made of
gum arabic and sugar, and sell for fifty
cents per pound. Inferior gum-drops
contain gelatine and glucose. These sell
anywhere from fifteen to forty cents per
pound.
The popularity of the gum-drop is
kept in the mouth long and chewed
upon, which accounts also for the
demand for caramels, marshmallow
drops, and molasses candy. The last
named is always in demand, and is
of the Oldest kinds of candies in exist
ence. 1t will probably always be in
demand so long rs candies are sold.
Good rock candy is always sought for.
Pure rock candy is crystallized sugar.
The best is always on a string, and
when held up to the light is always as
clear as glass. The cheap rock candy
consists of the drippings from the former.
Rock candy is made in small kettles. A
string is drawn across them and the
candy is made by dropping pure sugar
sirup On the strings. The sirup is hot,
and when it cools it forms the rock
candy rs we see it. All OF it, however,
does not adhere to the string. That
which settles on the bottom and edges
of the kettle is the settings, and con-
tains some impurities. This is broken
up and sold for rock candy at reduced
prices. Broken candy is generally in
good request. For peppermint and win
tergreen drops there is always q sale,
and they are about as staple an article
now as there is in the market.
Years ago cocoanut cakes were n great
favorite, especially with children. They
consisted Of cocoanut cut up and mixed
with sugar of white, red and brown col
or, being flat and of circular form, and
. little larger than a silver dollar.
They are sold in the market now, but
not to such an extent as in years gone
by. Cocoanut still enters very largely
into the manufacture of candy, but in
different forms. French nougats have
come into prominence in the past few
years. They consist of marshmallow
paste and almonds. They are sold in var
Gus forms and some of them are coated
with chocolate. For stick candy, ex-
cept molasses candy, the city trade ha;.
decreased. All candies are cheaper
than they were five or six years ago.
Those that now retail for sixty cents
per pound formerly brought seventy
five cents. They can be manufactured
more cheaply, for sugar and chocolate
and other articles which enter into their
composition can be obtained at q less
cost.-Provadence Journal.