The Washington herald., 1915-02-11

/ If Anna Gam were to come to see you
some day and if you. being in a sugar
tooth mood, should express your desire
for some Of her famous candy. she prob
ably would CRAFTY your wish by sending
to ner model candy kitchen for a choice
assortment Of her dainty sweets. But
she really wouldn't have to go to all
this trouble. Anna Gam is the fairy
godmother of candy, and, by a wave of
I her magic wand, can produce the most
tOothsOme Of Caramels. chocolate creams.
/ nOugatine, cOcOanut balls. and maple
! kisses. In fact, Miss Gam told a repre-
I sentative of the Woman's Herald yes
terday tSat she could go into any wom-
ans kitchen and. providing there was the
. best Of sugar. cream. chocolate. ana
other such simple provisions, could pro-
( duce any of her famous candy spsciali-
/ ties
/ The average candymaker would need
/ gelatine, glucose. pastes. artificial color
ing. and an elaborate set of machnery
But this clever little candy maker uses
exactly the same methods In her candy
| factory that. as a high school girl, she
employed in her mothers kitchen.
The filling for her chocolate creams is
fondant made by heating pure granu-
lated sugar to a certain degree and mix
ing it with fresh triple cream.
The maple sugar candies are made from
the pure product of the sugar maple
Her caramels are poured upon marble
slabs from a mixing kettle in which
only the simplest ingredients ever find
their way.
But, surely" you say, as you point
to some delightful looking pink cocoa
nut candies. this rose color is artificial"
Then Miss Gam laughs.
AS artificial as beet Juice. You know
grated beets. when boiled. give a most
wonderful COloring, and the product of
one beet would color many many pounds
of candy. I make it myself from the
fresh vegetable. and a few quarts will
last a long time
rs this a secret known to candy
makers?" you ask. And Miss Gam
laughs again as she explains that she
first became acquainted with this method
OF Coloring when she and her sisters as
schoolgirls surreptitiously tinted their
pretty cheeks with this harmless color
when parental authority put a ban on
the use of rouge.
And this pretty green" Miss Gam
goes on to explain, as she points to some
candies suitable for a ST. Patrick's Day
party, these are colored with extract
maye myself from fresh spinach"
But just because Miss Gam makes her
candy according to home rules does not
mean that she does her business along
[, nome lines. NO, lndeed! For although
barely more than twenty she has an
establishment that covers two floors OF
a city business building. and keeps a
good-sized force of girls busy carrying
out her ideas of candymaking all the
time.
Il have always loved candy" she ex.
plains when you ask her how she en-
barked on this interesting enterprise.
when / was little girl my mothers
one complaint was that she could never
keep any sugar in the house. I can't re-
member the time when l didn't know
how to make half a dozen different sorts
of sweets 1t came just as naturally to
me as it comes to other little girls to
make dolls clothes. and when my play
mates would be playing house l would
be working over the candy kettle, devils
ing new ways of Transforming sugar into
candy.
Then when grew and I saw that
every girl OF today. if she doesn't marry
young, chooses some vocation. ! decided
to make candy. None of my family was
terrifically enthusiastic about this venture.
and took long chances from the first.
although ! needed no machinery. for
am a thorough beliver In handmade
candy. Still l had to make considerable