The Candy Maker's Guide: A Collection of Choice Recipes for Sugar Boiling

by Fletcher Manufacturing Company

The Candy Maker's Guide is a recipe book by the Fletcher Manufacturing Company, made for those who are endeavoring sweetie selling, with recipes scaled up for production. "These form almost as important a part of the trade as the sugar itself, and it should be the chief object of every workman to try and excel in these two important features; if you do not use good flavors, it is a moral certainty you cannot produce good candies. Flavors for boiled sugars should be specially prepared, those bought at an ordinary chemist shop may do very well for flavoring [Pg 19]custards and pastry, but are of no use for boiled sugars, in fact better use no essence at all, as they are so weak that, to give the drops &c., even a slight taste the quantity required reduces the degree to which the sugar has been boiled so much that it works like putty, and sticks to the machine while being pressed through; the drops when finished look dull, dragged and stick together when bottled; tons of drops are weekly spoiled by small makers using such flavors, while a little trouble and less expense would put them out of their misery, besides giving to the goods that clear bright dry appearance to be found in the drops of a respectable house."

142 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 21, 2019