Two taffy-pulling pictures from advertising cooking booklets. The picture, left, is from a booklet sometime between 1911 and 1914.
This Sweet heart picture, above, does not come with a date. It is from Lydia Pinkham’s advertising booklet. All the illustrations in her booklets are so cute. Lydia gave us these instructions:
- In handling or pulling all boiled candies the hands should be well buttered to prevent the mixture sticking to them.
- If the pot in which candy is boiled is buttered for an inch or two down, the liquid will not boil over.
- Flavors are more delicate when not boiled in candy but added afterward.
- Use fresh cold water for each trial of candy; preferably ice-water.
