Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-09

al all destined to be turned
M into luscious penny
49, worths for small boys
and girls.
In each pot was twenty-five pounds Of the
best white sugar, with water in proper proper
ton, and it was observable that the foreman
did not have to take out spoonfuls OF the mix
ture and drop them into a glass of water in
order to tell when it was done. Thanks to long
experience, he was able to discover that by
simply looking into the vessels. When the
contents of pot were judged to be sufficiently
cooked the receptacle was taken off the fire
and emptied upon a cold iron table, where the
stun was left to cool, workman assisting the
process by folding the jelly-like mass over and
over upon itself as it kept spreading out
in semi-iquid fashion upon the
metal surface. Before beginning the folding
operation, however, he poured from a bottle
into the middle Of the candy small quantity
OF an essential oil of something-say lemon
BY the time that the mixture was cool enough
to handle it had been made up into the form of
hard roll, 25 pounds in weight and something
the shape of q breakfast loaf. Now if this had
been transformed into sticks without further
process the result would have been plain lemon
candy without stripes. But what is the use of
stick candy withoutstripes2 The juvenile pub
lie demands stripes, and stripes it must have.
PUTTING IN THE STRIPES.
Accordingly, the workman took a chunk Of
the candy which he had cut off while it was
still soft, and pulled" it by hanging it on a
hook and throwing it over and over until IL was
quite white. This he separated into half a
dozen narrow strips and stuck them on one
side OF the loaf parallel and extending from
one end of the loaf to the other. Then he
wooden table in front Of a small furnace with a
sort Of open CRATE full of live Goals. The OBJ
ject Of this was to keep the loaf sufficiently
warm to be malleable.
Next he began rolling the loaf with the
palms OF his hands, causing it to spindle out
toward the other end of the table. Pretty
soon it had spindled out into long tail,
stretching half way down the table, at which
point second workman took it up and
spindled it some more down in the direction of
third workman near the farther end Of the
table, who reduced il by rolling with his palms
to the diameter of the desired stick. As fast as
six-foot length was made the proper dame
ter it was cut off, the man who manipulated
the loaf rolling out more material as fast it
was required.
Thus in wonderfully short time the entire
mass OF 20 pounds weight was reduced to six
foot lengths, all ready to be cut up into sticks.
BY the process Of rolling the stripes were nat
urally made to form spiral, the entire length
Of stick produced being simply lengthenlng
out of the original loaf, which now appeared
h.
The men kept their hands busted with pow
dered sugar to keep them from sticking. and
during the last part of the operation they
would roll five or six of the long sticks at the
same time.
CUTTING THE STICKS
1t only remained, for the finish, to cut the
long sticks up into short ones, and this was
done with pair Of big shears, taking all the
long sticks together and laid parallel, and
clipping through them all in a straight line.
The thing has to be done in a peculiar way,
for, If You will try it, you will quickly find that
you cannot cut a stick of candy with pair of
scissors used in the ordinary fashion. To do
the work one point Of the shears is not lifted
from the table at all, but is slid along, the
other blade coming down clipetty-clip on the
candy sticks and shipping them apart with the
utmost neatness and dispatch. The ragged
ends and such waste scraps obtained in making
the stick candy are thrown aside in a pile dur
ing the process and are afterward boiled up
again with other sugar. One might imagine
that the mixture of favors in these scraps
would render them unsuitable for further use;
but 30 powerful are the essential oils employed
that such trfes are practically eliminated
The red coloring material employed for
stripping stick candy is cochineal, mixed for the
purpose with alum, soda and cream of tartar.
1t is mixed inwith portion of candy and laid on
in the same manner as the stripes for the lemon
sticks. All stick candy of every kind is made
simply of sugar and water, with the addition OF
the different essential oils for havoring. The
sticks that are white all through are SO because
they are made OF the same candy pulled"
Sticks of braided and other such patterns are
put through a sort OF little mill that turns with
q crank and has a pattern mold of brass to
squeeze the candy into the right shape. Lemon
drops are made by putting them through a
machine of the same sort, and all manner of
other things besides.
CHEAP CANDY TOYS
are turned out from these crank machines but
the more expensive and elaborate ones are
made with plaster molds. The liquid candy,
just off the fire, is poured into the mold and
permitted to remain there for a very few mo-
ments. Then pointed instrument is thrust in
through hole in the mold, thus tapping" it,
80 that what of the candy has not hardened
runs out The candy will have hardened, how
ever, all over the inside of the mold so that a
hollow cast is the result. 1t requires no little
skill to make these casts. The mold
for one Of them consists Of "a pieces, and
to get the elephant that it makes out whole,
without injuring any part Of the candy animal
is a matter OF great difficulty. Maybe a num-
Der will be spoiled before one perfect one is
secured. That is the reason why this elephant
costs $l.75, which seems good deal to pay for
a candy toy. No favorings, save essential oils.
are used in making stick candy. The
lemon oil is obtained from the rind. You
can make a very fair quality of it yourself by
sleeping chopped-up lemon rinds in a mixture
Of half water and half alcohol for a week or so.
Among other essential oils that the candy man
ufacturer uses are mint anise seed. sassafras,
wintergreen, cloves, strawberry and CHINA
mon. The business of making essential oils
for favoring is carried on upon large scale in
New York.
Names That Overcame q Hotel Clerk.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Among the many thousands Of proper names
annually written, more or less legibly-usually
less-upon the register OF hotel like the
Grand Pacific pretty much every known COM
bination Of letters is found. Hotel clerks be-
come hardened, and greet Mr.. Buck and Mr..
Cluck and Mr.. Duck with equal affability. But