Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-06-11
What Is Put in Candy.
MANUFACTURERS TELL HOW THE
SWEETS ARE ADULTERATED.

a dealer yesterday. eThe real fact is
the greater portion of candy has no color
ing in it at all as it is nothing but pure
| crystallized syrup. What few tints are
given to the product are merely superb
cial. You see this peppermint here with
the bright streaks running around it like
a grapevine ? Well, that is an outside
] color, and is nothing but the result of
water and slight proportion of cochlneal.
LAS for glucose being hurtful, I am as
tohished at the ignorance of any man,
J who would make the charge. Why, it is
simply the extract of corn and potatoes
and it is the great principle of what lexl-
co grapers call the staff Of life.' Some of
] those fellows down at Annapolis have got
an idea in their heads that glucose is a
horrible poison which eandymakers are
smearing over all the sweetmeats that 60
| out. If they wou Id turn their attention
| to some of the real grievances of the
country and stop letting their waggish
constituents impose upon them, they
+ would have more than enough to do.-
Moreover. it is not quite year ago since
convention of chemists and other learned
men in Washington decided that glucose
was not injurious to health. A full inyes-
tigation of the matter was made.
| GLUCOSE SAID TO BE HARMLESS.
'Glucose is manufactured in large
quantities and is now almost universally
| used. Buffalo and Chicago ships thous.
/ ands OF barrels Of it every week. We do
not make 1t here, although Baltimore
ranks as perhaps the second largest candy
| manufacturing city in the union. There
| is one house here that turns out q ton of
ea.adT ayesy day. They have customers
in all paris of the United States and
Europe. A number Of the smaller houses
here send candy to England, but the re-
turns are so slow that commerce in that
quarter is not sought after.a
1t may be true that there are some few
abuses in the candy business at present.
| but they are not accomplished through
! the use of glucose. There is toy manu-
| facturer who has recently been flooding
the country with painted geW-gaWs,
which were never intended to eat. Among
these is the gaudy Christmastree fruit
which has come into such general use of
late years. 1t might properly be compared
to the tabled Dead Sea fruit, which is
said to turn bitter ashes on the lips
Children put it in their mouths and suck
the paint off it, when it makes them dead
| ly sick. The proper remedy for this would
| be for parents to exclude it from the
household.
I'm our establishment we use only three
| colors-chrome yellow, carmine and coch-
ineal-the latter of which is very expen-
slve. Carmine produces a pretty aesh-
color tint, and is used only in fancy can
dies. That is it in those nice cream drops
and other delicate preparations OF which
schoolgirls are said to be SO found. I
do not know that there Is anything posi-
tive hurtful about them. AS | said
before, the small proportion in which they
arg used renders them altogether Innocu-
Gus.
The funniest sell in the whole busl-
ness, however, Is strawberry taffy.' 1t is
fixed up in the most tempting manner,
till you can see the strawberry juice osz-
ing through the pores. It is mainly con-
sumsd by boys, who think they are grid
ling the strawberry season around the
calendar equator In one endless streak of
red. It is a shame to undecei,. ~, mant
1 ~ -Asue Ae.54.5li or
- = 5
IieVo GGe deafeI COOn q ouHGlGi O pure
water, and dropped the faintest speck Of
the compound into the glass. In an IN
slant che water was as red as ink.
~ our raspberry drawn from the foun-
tain, The continued laughing. lis made in
the same way. There is no danger of ID
hurting you, for piece as big as coffee
graln will color a hogshead of water
Here are few other samples in water.
This is cochineal with the dark heavy
color, while the carmine there has bright
purple tlnt.'
THE USE OF TERRA ALBA.
Another dealer said: 1.-THE law vii, not !
be sbie to take hold of this matter at all
cxctpy to prevent the use of minerals and
20 .souoas coiors in the preparation OF
candy. The employment of terra alba, or
cfu.Atd marble, In making candy is one
or ths worst abuses of the trade. In my
opinion, it amounts to a crime. It is re-
sorted TO simply to save more costly ingre-
dents. | do not know that it is used in
this city now, but several years ago, in
one OF our principal esta blishmenls, where
L worked as jonrneyman. they used to
turn it into the soft candy in great pans
full. Before pouring it in it was pulver-
lied, SO as it could not be easily detected
under the teeth. 1t can be plainly seen
in what is know as pulled goods but not
In clear candy. There are no paints and
but few dyes, so far as am aware of, used
in this city. Glucose is perfectly harm
less. 1t is nothing but the sugar taken
out of corn. A good quality of glucose is
also taken from beets, dried grapes and
common starch. Cane is one of the most
prolific sources of syrup for the manufac-
ture of candy, but its products is not
properly regarded as glucose. 1t is much
sweeter and more liable to crystalline than
the juice of starch. The great disadvan-
tage of using glucose in candy manufac-
ture is that it will not form into grains
without the introduction of foreign sub
stances.
Scream OF tartar was formerly used,
before glucose came into fashion, but was
done away with on account of its great
EXPENSE 1t is still used in the manufac-
ture Of costly candy.