The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-08-21
Aadersptt gHtettigeHeer.
A Yisit to a Candy Factory.

A Visit to Candy Factory.
Did you ever think when eating the
delicious candy put up 80 daintily in
pretty boxes that hundreds of people earn
their living making the cahdyf that hun.
dreds of thousands of dollars are invested
in buildings, machinery and stock? that
large fortunes have been made by candy
1t is 80.
Last week I went through one of the
largest and best candy factories in this
country to see how candy was made the
Kind Of people who make it the place
where it was made. Tho building #as
G large one, standing at the corner Of two
of the best streets in NeW York. 1 went
up on an elevator TO the fifth OF top story,
and into a room where the sun shone
brightly on to marble tables, long and
narrow, about which we're gathered groups
of pretty girls, wearing caps to keep the
dust of the sugar out of their hair in
place. Some were shellipg almonds,
some were wrapping caramels: one was
helping ata machine that cut the cara
meIs into cubes. A large, lat, broad
piece of caramel was rrn through ma
chine and came out in narrow bars; these
were separated again, and came out the
second time the familiar CARAMEL. Some
of the girls, with long wire fork like
tools, sat at tables on which double boil
ers, kept hot by gas, we're filled with diff
erent colored cream, into which they
dropped waInuts, which By deft touch
they covered with cream and dropped
into pan in even rows; these were the
familiar walnut creams In another
room great shining copper boilers, With
coils Of team pipes wrapped on the out
side, and standing at an angle of forty
degrees, reyolved slowly round and
round; large pipes were at the mouth or
openings. In one boiler were shelled
almonds liquored sugar or syrup was
poured through this pipe on the almonds,
and presently the almonds took on q
white coat, which gradually became
thicker and thicker Until the beautiful
smooth sugar almonds of our acquaint
ance were before US.
at long white marble table stood two
men; one with q long wooden paddle, the
other with two knives shaped like a
currycomb. If you looked sharply at
the table you saw that the marble was
covered with colorless syrup except in
the middle, where there was cloud:like
crimson spot. The man with the paddle,
in white linen trousers, coat, and. white
paper cap, began lifting the syrup with
his paddle and turning it over, the man
with the knives following him around
the table scraping the marble and throw
ing the syrup the knives picked up on to
the central mass. Every moment the
mass became harder to move, and it was
explained that this was cooling table,
that current of cold water as broad as
the table was constantly passing under
the marble. The streaks of red spread
through the mass, which became more
pink and creamy atevefy turn of the
paddle, until it was lifted, q beautiful
pink mass, into a porcelain kettle, to ap-
pear in many kinds of candy.
AT another table men in white caps
and coats, with faces and hands covered
with white powder, were dropping into
little crevices of different shapes, in q
white surface, deep red syrup these
wooden boxes were removed INFO drying
room, from which they were taken crys.
talized. They we're taken out of their
little inches by q wire scoop, the white
etarch sifted as well as possible from
them and then submitted to blowing
process that is, a great fan conducts q
strong current of al. on to s. sieve in
which pounds of these crystals, or pep.
permint drops, or any candy made in
moulds, are. put Until every particle ol
white starch dust is blown off and then
they are ready for packing and selling. Al
another table small machine, with roll
ers, cogs and wheels, was fastened. A
mass of thick paste was put through the
machine aud came out the delicate nut
tablets of which most of us are 30 fond
A mass of.white sugar in long, narrow
strip went into peculiar machine, and
after moment's pressure long string
of buttercups we're laid on the table.
Great, enormous copper kettles held
masses of pulverized figs or thick choco.
late being slowly worked round and round
with grindstones; and scrapers to crush
the mass and to keep the bottom of the
kettles clean were in another room. A
long closetfheld little shelves ON which
strong currents of cold air were blowing
Try them quickly; girls put them in
on one side, and after stated number Of
minutes other girls removed them on the
other side and wrapped them at once in
white waxed paper. At d wheel, about
foot in width, that revolved rapidly, BAT
young girl holding eighths Of peeled
cocoanut which rapidly fell in featherly
fakes into pan. When the wheel was
stopped you saw that its surface resem.
bled crater this wheel is used to CRATE
the skin from oranges and lemons, which
you know is used in many kinds of candy.
Little furnaces with charcoal fires stood
about, on which syrup in various stages
was cooking for various kinds of candy
but most of the candy is made by steam,
as sugsr is 30 liable to burn when brought
directly into contact with heat from
Goals.
All through this factory the floors
we're tiled, the tables white marble, all
the pans new and bright. Light and
air came in through the open windows,
and the three hundred work people look
ed happy-just as people ought to look
who made candy. So.
1t vas here as in everything else: the
candy that required the most skill, into
which human labor went most directly,
was the highest priced. Christian Union.
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