Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-19
MAKING PURE CANDY
Experiments Being Conducted
by Chemistry Bureau.
WILL PUBLISH RESULTS
Lack Of Sugar Found in the Com
mercial Product.
GLUCOSE AND SACCHARIN
Forthcoming Bulletin Will Contain
Simple Receipts for Use in
the Homes.

| There is u candy store on the top floor
| of the bureau of chemistry building of
the Department of Agriculture, and the
shelves are filled with jars of the famil-
| lar sticks banded with red and yellow
| There are soft, Chevy" candies lemon
| drops of four different sorts, and in a
| little while there viii be horehound,
| coltsfoot sticks, gumdrops and all the
other sorts of simple candy such as the
children spend pennies for at the corner
tuck-in- shop
Following the experiments with candy
| making, the department will issue a bull
| letin giving some facts about homemade
| and commercial candies and d lot of sim
pie receipts for making candy out of
sugar.
| The bureau of chemistry has been after
| the candy butchers of the push carts and
certain class of corner stores for
| long time. 1t has been after saccharin
partly because it was such an important
constituent of the candy as it is made
and sold. 1t was known that candy was
made principally with glucose, but 1T was
| not realized how little sugar there was
| used in the business until some receipts
| for commercial candy from the depart
ment library were consulted and specific
directions found there for making candy
| in 1G0-pound lots out of glucose and
| saccharin without symptom of sugar.
Experiments With Stick Candy.
| The candy factory of the department
has been established but short time
| The first experiments have been made
| with the commoner stick Sorts such as
| the children buy, and which, according
| to statistics, furnish more than half the
| candy sold in the United States.
A professional candy maker is employ
| ed by the department for turning out the
candy. Some of his earlier efforts are
white sticks with the red spiral stripe
characteristic of peppermint and CHINA
mon. They are made out of pure cane
sugar and the coloring is vegetable
stain maze from the cactus. Even in a
steam heated room the sticks are firm
| and do not grow sticky. The material,
exclusive of the labor. costs about five
| and-one-half or six cents IA pound, almost
twice as much, say the chemists, as the
| cost of the materials for making COM
mercial candy, but cheap enough to be
made at home for very small fraction OF
what the candy costs by the stock from
the push carts and the corner stores.
Use of Invert Sugar.
| This hard, dry candy is made from di-
| rect cane sugar, but experiments have
| been made in tempering the direct sugar
| with invert sugar. This makes the sticks
/ softer and by a proper addition of invert
sugar the candy can be made soft so
| it is mice and chevy and has to be
wrapped in oiled paper. But it is all
sugar. There is variety of yellow
| striped candy that has nothing in it but
sugar. The coloring is made from cara
MEL" or burned sugar. that is kept in
a bottle and used as needed. Any desired
| shade can be made, from light lemon yell
| low to brown.
| There are pounds of lemon drops, some
| favored with citric acid and others with
| tartarc and various sorts of acids to see
| which is the best.
Simple Receipts for the Home.
| The homo receipts embodied in the
| forthcoming bulletin will be simple as
| possible, but will include caramels and
chocolate drops, marshmallows and gum
drops, and anything else that is cheap
and wholesome and can be made out OF
pure sugar.