New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-05
SOME "POINTS' ON CANDIES.
YOU WILL PAY AS MUCH FOR FINERl
GRADES AS FORMERLY.
BUT THE M'KINLEY LAW MAKES THE SWEETS
swEETER-cANDY NOT UNHEALTHFUL.


swEETER-cANDY NOT UNHEALTHFUL
Young women land young men who buy candy for
the young women will be disappointed to learn that
the reduction In the price Of sugar will not affect their
favoFite article OF consumption, and that Huylers and
Mallard's candies viii not be any cheaper The Trib-
reporter who went TO these two factories, where
the delicious smell makes ones mouth water was told
that the cost OF sugar Is only comparatively slight
item in the production Of the higher grade Of candles
the skilled workmanship and costly methods being the
main factors that considered in making the price.
Other manufacturers OF hgh-prced candies say the
same George must still bankrupt himself unless his
Dulcnea shows mercy and delgDs TO eat some other
brand. This 81 20 for pound Of fruit glaees
with Maillard's II, 81 for the best mixed
while Huyler's best mixed costs so cents pound.
In the cheaper grades OF candles, however, the
| duction in sugar viii make sweeping change. The
large manufacturers who sell to the Iobbcrs will
duce their prices from IL to cents pound. This
WILL of course benefit both jobbers and retailers
greatly and will be OF immense advantage TO the AIner
can confectioners trade, which has assumed wonderful
proportions Thirty years ago candy factory pure
and simple, unknown and manufacturers con-
sidered It necessary to combine the manufacture Of
other article with It, in fact, the manufacture OF
candy in any form is comparatively recent and the
girls in ancient Greece and Rome had neither earames
nor bons to enable them TO pass the time at the
matinee, although they did enjoy more realistic and
blood curdlng shows which to-day could throw the mod
ern ankdrama, with buZzsaw and burglar acts lar IN
the shade" But would they repay the sacrhce OF
the transparent fruit glace, the French canded fu
with oranges and aprcots clothed in dream OK
sugary delight or the walnut that peeps from Its
candied covering like Kernel lost in the snowi What
exhibition Of muscle and endurance, even when spced
by the occasional death of a combatant, what array
of garbs and nations could have the effect that
box of candles reposing in their lace paper, has on
the sex whose love for good things is proverbialf
But even the Spartan, who does not share the
almost universal love for sweets should be able TO sec
something very attractive in the box. All the coors
of the rainbow and all the scents Of fruit and flower
are represented in this one pound. Orchard and
garden have been rifed busy hands and brains have
toiled in far lands and near, to produce passing
delight even the rural and retiring vegetables have
been called on to give colors.
Who in looking at box Of modern candies, would
imagine that only ten years have passed since the
heahensh practice of putting terra alba into candles
was abandoned1 This is heavy white earth, purely
mineral which was carefully pulverized till it became
fine enough to float in the air, and was then mixed
in the candy paste to give 1t body and weight IL Is
not poisonous, but is about as healthful as nney
graduated would be as an article OF STEADY
diet
The colors too in those olden days were not al
ways harmless, and the bright blue or red candy OF
those DAYS is responsible for many additions TO the
graveyard literature of the country.
No historian has left a record Of the first man.
ufacture of candy from sugar. but could not nave
been known in Europe in any form before the s4eeh1
century Before then they had concoctions oil money
and nuts ground to paste, but the early Romans
knew nothing about sugar, except as CURIOSITY Ing
introduction Of sugar dates probably from the time Oh
the Crusades, and it was first made In cyprus III
about the middle OF the twelfth century. From TINS
place It seems to to Madeira, and thence 10
tho West Indies in the beginning OF the sixteenth oeh-
tury Until the fifteenth century probably only the
sweet Juice KNOWN but toward the middle Oh inc
sixteenth century Venetian discovered method OF
raining which was soon used In Germany, factory
being established in Dresden in 1897. The method,
however was crude, and consisted only In clarifying
the syrup and producing form OF candySusar' III
pure and diScolored.
The sugar-cane was originally native OF the Easo
Indies it is perennial plant, having jointed stalk
which is filed with loose sweet juicy pth for two
thirds OF its length The leaves nbbon-Shaped ana
from four to five feet long. It's height varies fom
six to twenty feet, according TO the Conditions Oh o
soil and the thickness Of the stalk is from one 70 TWO
inches. The best cane is ready for cutting IN @n
months after planting, while other grades are hoo
available for periods ranging from twelve TO twenty
months The stalks cut little above the grouho
and tied In punches for the crushlngmi fresh Canes
spring from the stumps so that they may be cut sew
eral times without eplantinS, but as eacn growth 10
smaller than the preceding one, 1t is customary 10 TO
plant at least part of the field yearly. The canes arc
crushed by heavy rollers, which make only from TWO
TO four revolutions minute and sixtyhve to seventy
five pounds OF canelulce can DC eAuae'eu H0Hi NV
pounds of cane.
Sugar is not grown in Europe, except 10 limited
extent in Sicily and Andalusia, and 1t grows only IN
the extreme southern parts Of the united s'aVe''
Buildings from eight to nine stories high are USED ior
sugar refining the raw sugar being dissolved IN not
fla waite
used Then bullocks' blood is mixed In, the reason
for this being that the albumen coaguates from me
heat and the it rises TO cle top carries Wiz
messed through bag filters, after which II passes
through charcoal made OF bones Inc pr0auSt tnSH 10
pure sugar and water, the water being eliminated Dy
heating secold time. complicated method Is tusn
used TO whiten the pure sugar when IL Is redS toi
The operation Of the Mckinley bill redncel tle PrloG
Of sugar . cents pound on April l. The benencent
influence of this will be felt IN sTedt HulhVSi ~
trades and give purgr and better food owing 10 tng
fact that the difference in price between sugar ana
glucose is slight, graduated sugar pelns Viy
nav "Reminiscences who heretofore used glucose to
retain it, as the saving VIII not nearly % arr
il will work changes in the breweres and the Jam aug
preserve factories, but candies particularly VIII leo.
the GOOD effect of the reduction In cost WINE tle
hch priced candles as previously mentioned, VII 10
enable RE large manufacturers OF this country and OF
New York and Philadelphia especially, TO compete WIZ
England in the strife for south american trace 10 b s
CARRIED on H eG great had been
merely question Of price we could nave na1 n tho
whatever ii was only the good reputation OF tiS
American manufacturers which enabled them 10 noiu
III ade and what candy was sold sold a, areSu OK
good quality carefully maIntaned In fact the sys S and
SSriced candies stand to-day without foreign rVa anu
pr n'o cold in England I'm large Quantities, the only
Disadvantage being their peTsha6le mature , NoT s1h s
oo oreat proportions As far as the American
Consumer is concerned, though he will not get eaa St
cEaaner he will get IL purer, as IL Is eApecleu t"as
ri reniace glucose almost entirely, except IN
har HE latter article is necessary, as in making
0a SnSectoners use the three grades OF sugar known
nc Sranuated, mould A, and coniectoners' A. Inc
% ~ manufacture has not changed much IN
me last dfteen wears except in details, the cheaper
e Of candy being made Of finely powdered sugar.
I'D mxed With little gum arabic, 10 give the paste
consstency while for the fine grades carefully pre-
paTed syrup OF sugar IS used 49,, NJ, -, ,,
Tere IRE now over 200 varieties OF candles, aVeag
In in nrics from cents pound for gnnldropS 70
az -, Fn,or for etc. one firm In New York