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An 1893 book about Salem [4] calls Gibraltars, together with molasses "black-jacks", "two Salem institutions" and says . The Gibraltar... is a white and delicate candy, flavored with lemon or peppermint, soft as cream at one stage of its existence, but capable of hardening into a consistency so stony and so unutterably flinty-hearted that it is almost a libel upon the rock whose name it bears.
Mary Jane is an old-fashionedtaffy-type candy made from peanut butter and molasses. First marketed in 1914, Mary Jane has remained in production for over a century save for a two-year pause when its ownership changed hands.
For the candy stick striped like a gay barber’s pole. Stick candy was the subject of a poem, "Stick-Candy Days", from the 1907 collection A Rose of the Old Regime: And other Poems of Home-Love and Childhood by the Bentztown Bard (Folger McKinsey). [7] The first two verses are: I want to go back to the stick-candy days,
Attach a candy thermometer to the side of a saucepan. Add the sugar, corn syrup, and 1/4 cup water to the pan and bring to a boil, stirring until the sugar has just dissolved.
Roll out the potato candy to a 12-by-10-inch rectangle (about ¼-inch thick), dusting the top with powdered sugar if it becomes sticky. Spread the peanut butter in an even layer over the potato candy.
Whitman's produced the first pre-packaged candy in 1854—a box of sugar plums adorned with curlicues and rosebuds. Whitman's began advertising in newspapers, shortly before the beginning of the Civil War , and the business grew so large, that in 1866, the company occupied an entire building at 12th and Market Streets in Philadelphia.