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  2. Charles Roser - Wikipedia

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    The cookie business became part of what is now Nabisco in the 1890s. Roser is credited by some with having invented the Fig Newton (actually a pastry) or at least the process or machinery to make it, but Nabisco has never acknowledged these claims. In any event Roser left his cookie business a very rich man. [1]

  3. Ruth Graves Wakefield - Wikipedia

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    In 1938, Ruth Graves Wakefield invented the chocolate chip cookie, a lasting symbol of culinary creativity. While working in the kitchen at the Toll House Inn, she tried to improve her butter drop cookie recipe. She added chopped pieces of a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar, expecting the chocolate to melt evenly into the dough.

  4. Drops (confectionery) - Wikipedia

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    Christmas Starlight Candy, in Canada. Drops are a traditional small, round confectionery made from a mixture of boiled sugar and flavourings. They are "dropped" onto a pan or baking sheet to set. [1] In the 1840s, drop roller machines came on the market.

  5. Necktie - Wikipedia

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    A necktie, or simply a tie, is a piece of cloth worn for decorative purposes around the neck, resting under the shirt collar and knotted at the throat, and often draped down the chest. Variants include the ascot, bow, bolo, zipper tie, cravat, and knit. The modern necktie, ascot, and bow tie are descended from the cravat.

  6. The Story Behind the Animal Cracker - AOL

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    These festive treats may remind you of a day at the circus as a child, but the story of how they came to be goes all way back to England in the late 1800s. The animal-shaped cookies soon made ...

  7. Mary Jane (candy) - Wikipedia

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    Inn 1989, the Wisconsin-based Stark Candy Company acquired Miller's holdings and began producing Mary Janes until Stark was bought out by Necco in 2008, effectively returning the candy's production to Massachusetts., [5] When Necco filed for bankruptcy in 2018, the company's various brands were auctioned off a la carte and no buyer was ...

  8. Necco - Wikipedia

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    Necco dated its origins to Chase and Company, a company founded by brothers Oliver R. and Silas Edwin Chase in 1847. [5] Having previously invented and patented the first American candy machine, [4] the Chase brothers continued to design and create machinery that made assortments of candies, such as their popular sugar wafers.

  9. Candy making - Wikipedia

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    A way for candy makers to show that a candy was trademarked was to stamp an image or initials on the candy. [2] In the late 19th century and especially the early 20th century, industrial candy making was almost exclusively a masculine affair, and home-based candy making was a feminine affair. [3]