Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-05

kindred product and OF which one maker
alone turns out 200 gallons a day. The
busy time is from the beginning OF the
cooler weather in the fall until after
Easter. Christmas and Easter both are
cGndy-makers carnivals.
Novelties I'm Candy.
The mar who can invent a new candy
especially a penny novelty--is q made man;
that is IL 1t catches on in the popular fancy.
Many of the things the candy men have
turned out as triumphs have not sold at all.
There is a constant effort for the produc-
tion OF new things. This applies more
particularly to the penny candies, for the
children demand new forms, colors and
combinations with unrelenting voice. II is
also a sore puzzle to find pleasing names
for the new candles. There have been
Klondike nuggets and Trilby cups, and a
Ben Hur mixed is now on the market. OF
chocolates, fully eighty different combina-
lions have been tried and are at present
manufactured. Among the newer articles
are jelly cherries, a new discovery in boar
hound drops, lemonade and soda water
drops, which put in a glass Of water make
drinks after their own kind. Easter has
greatly risen in Importance as a eonfec-
tionery holiday in recent years and now
rivals Christmas. For this day there are
novel chick and rabbit creations coming
largely from Japan and Germany. One
local dealer claims to be the sole maker OF
what he calls honeycomb candy; another IL
now making chocolate creams at 81 a pouni,
with q new black Martinique coating. An
other has patented an alright bonbon box
with a celluloid sheet inserted in the top
which reveals the contents. This he calls
the TX Ray" and during two months last
year he sold 5000 OF them. The ordinary
stick candy is not increasing in sale, but
this same manufacturer has a new idea In
this line, in a pure mold A sugar stock
put up in the X Ray box.
There is nothing about a candy factory
more interesting than the making Of stick
candy. Take up one Of the round pieces
from a bucket OF mixed candy and you will
see that 1t is a short section OF a stick.
Look at the end OF it. In the center is a
figure of some sort with e surrounding Of
solid color and a outside coating OF. say.
red with stripes on 1t. This is all built to-
getheT in a sort OF giant stick Weighing
about eighty pounds and kept warm on .
heater. Suppose It is an American flag
that is taken for the center. TIL candy
worker first builds up a rectangular piece
Of red and white strips, then puts in the
blue field and a piece OF red edgewise for
the staff. Then he builds me batch out
with chunks Of white to make 1t circular,
puts on a thick coating OF red candy and on
this paints white stripes. Then all he does
is to pull the batch to a small point and
keep pulling and rolling on a small table.
The design and colors all come into the
stick In miniature.
Some interesting Processes.
Lemon drops and similar hard forms are
made by running a batch Of soft candy the
shape of a board. through a machine like
a wringer with deDressiones the SIZE Of a
half drop all over each OF the rollers. Mixed
candy doesn't grow that way, but into a
bin holding, say, two tons. the different
| varieties are placed in layers. A man
shovels these into a shute, thereby mixing
them. Glucose and other syrup runs from
tanks down TO each floor. There has been
a popular impression that glucose is an
injurious substance. but II is nothing but
a clear syrup made from corn and is neees-
sary in all hard candy. in the ratio Of .
pounds glucose to 81 pounds sugar. The
eenters for chocolate creams and other bon
bons and all nodded candles are run into
confeetioners starch. The starch is placed
in trays aud depressions tHe shape Of the
candy TO be run made as thickly as possible
over the surface with plaster OF paris
moulds. These trays can be prepared
either by hand or machine, the latter being
the practice for the cheaper grades. One
local factory has a machine which prints
enough holes to mold 500 pounds Of candy
in twenty minutes. The starch molds are
filled either by hand or by a machine which
squiTts the hot candy into one row at q