Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-25
CANDY mANuFAmc,
How stick-Candy, Lozevrs.
and Other Sweet. 'ua1

How stick-Candy, Loze,rs.
and Other Sweets Are S w.
The word candy come, f.
the Arabic and Persian oana
name for sugar. Candy.ma,'
considerable trade in itself NJ
sus of 1890 reported Is, 500 c,4 1a7
ers. There are eight Or ten ,,'
tories in New York alone. ~
perhaps a hundred people ea,p
using a hundred barrels Or ny
sugar a week. besides uu,ns'!
glucose.
The stick. candy, which s.,]
be an Indigenous American wv,
of ordinary "A' sugar, bdSilla0,4 1
with water and 81 little cream q.
to prevent crystallization. TTs
is taken in patches of abon,
pounds to a marble table, who1
kncaded like bread, and the f,]
and coloring worked in. Tha
then goes to the stpullina.SI
where for five or six minutes til
and twisted and repulled and "a.
at the hands of q workman VII
tainly earns his living. Theme
turns to the marble table NJ ~
of which is a metal plate, kent
which he works the candy int
shape. Stripes are pressed
aAi2tch, two feet long and a
anfd it Is tirer-drawn AMI ap
till it is the proper size of
.'stick.' the right length Of "
clipped off by huge scissors.
candy is not kneadel or pulled
candy is run into pans. and a
run across where it is to be brokl
sticks or squares. The drops,
and other fancy shapes are M
passing the paste through a M;
which cuts and presses it to the
size and shape.
Lozenges are rolled out likI
crust, sometimes printed in q
with a hand-stamp, and then ]
with dies. ''Sugar-plums' and 4
almonds are made in a very intel
way, by throwing the nut, seedo|
nucleus with boiling SUGAR into|
copper pans, which are shaken !
or revolved by machinery owed
fire. Rolled over and over in thd
sugar, the plums soon begin to|
and are polished off by each
while above, steam-worked FAM
off the dry dust. Gum-drops ard
of gum-arabic and sugar, boil
mixed, seven or eight hundred
at Il time, in huge copper stoam.]
whence the mixture is taken Cd
smaller kettles to be favored al
ored. The cheap gum-drop|
'.nlarsh-mallows' are now made
from glucose. Cream or soft |
are made in il simple way, from
mixed with cream Of tartar to
crystallizing. TO give them theii
forms, a flat tray is filled with !
which is pressed into molds by
of plaster-of-Paris models
hand, face, berry OF what it mayj
ranged on q long stick. Into thesqi
molds the hot cream is poured al
allowed to dry. Some factories
much as fifty thousand pom
starch in this use. The dryin=j
kept at a high temperature, in
the ''crcams" soon become drl
solid. They Ire then separated
the starch by huge selves. Ii tl|
to be CLOSED. they are placed in
tin pans and Il cold solution OF
poured over them TO stand over
IN the morning the ice of sugar |
is broken and the ''creams'' are
coated with line crystals. Ihc
drops are Il very curious prodnaI
syrup is mixed with brandy OF II
water and is poured into the
molds. AS it cools at the top Al
the mold, the crystals make u Cd
GUS case, imprisoning the liquGF
The adulteration Of candy is chie
the use of terra n!ba, OF white
This harmful stuff can be de,eei]
dissolving the suspected CAM
water, whent the clay falls to th|
tom undissolved. An ounce +
cheap lozenges will sometimes {
three-quarters Of an oune
this injurious. stuff. The coloti
candies is. for the most
not dangerous, since a piece DIN
oring matter the size Of a gaH
will color five. Thousand pour
candy. Inscriptions manutac'
however, sometimes use mlneE
stead Of the safe vegetable coloF
carloads Of such candy have
seized and destroyed by the
officers in New York. For the
part, carminc and cochineal are
for red, saffron for yellow. caran
burnt sugar for brown. and tn
carmine for orange. Green an
candies are to be avoided. Ines
ors are used sometimes, ho"cV
''decorating''-a surface treain
fine candies by hand-in whichs
color artist is employed to do s'
at wholesale according to the,
set him. AS for this purpose tl
portion of coloring matter to y
about one-millionth, the resa1
swallowing paint is not SO 1s '
as might be expected. In ih'l
essential oils are used, about a
to q thousand pounds OF SUN
this is worked in during the DON
kneading. Licorice colors anu
both at once.-R. r. BoWGef' ~
pc1's Magazine.
Southern Butter-Brcad: Nv
of white cOrn-meal. one cup