1 Candy Furnace Price, $7 50
1 Copper Boiling pan 15×6 " 4 50
1 Candy Thermometer " 1 75
1 Marble Slab 48×24×2 " 8 00
1 Caramel Cutter " 6 50
1 Candy Hook " 75
1 Pallette Knife " 50
1 Doz. Taffy Pans " 2 00
1 Pair English Candy Shears " 1 50
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Total $33 00
More slab room will be required as trade increases.
We cannot go any further into the mysteries of this art successfully
unless we provide ourselves with a candy machine and rolls to enable us
to make drops. _They are indispensable_, and if we are to go on, we must
have them to enable us to make drops, and every confectioner sells
drops. These machines are made to suit all classes of trade, big and
little. The small ones make just as nice drops as the large ones, and
will turn out in the course of a day 2 or 3 cwt., by constant use, so
that for retail purposes this quantity would generally be sufficient.
[Illustration: Fig. 12-1/2.
Candy Machine and Rollers for Boiled Sugar.
For Fruit Drops, Acid or Cough Drops Imperials, Etc.
These Machines are made to fit a Standard Gauge, and will admit of any
number of Rollers being fitted to one frame. Thus parties having our
frames can at any time order additional rollers which will work
satisfactorily.
The Rollers are 2 in. diameter, 3-5/8 in. long. Almost every conceivable
pattern can be cut on them.
CANDY ROLL FRAMES, $ 6 00 each.
PLAIN DROP ROLLS, 14 00 per pair.
FANCY DROP ROLLS, from 16 00 "
]
Having so far got our workshop arranged the next thing is to keep it in
order. Sugar boiling is dirty sticky business, especially on wet days,
unless every part is kept scrupulously clean and dry, slabs and tables
should be washed, no trace of sifting, scraps, or boiled goods, should
be left exposed to the atmosphere during the night, the floor well
swept, and a little clean sawdust put down every night.
The comfort and ease in working in a clean place far more than offsets
the trouble and time it takes to put it in order, besides the goods are
much drier, brighter and easier to bottle or pack. Nothing is more
unpleasant than to work with sticky slabs, slimy machines or dirty
scales. The boil adheres to the slabs, sticks to the rollers, spoiling
the shapes, and become cloudy and spotty in weighing. We are not writing
without knowledge. Any one who has worked or visited small workshops can
endorse the value of these remarks, and call to mind this imaginary
picture. However, there are exceptions, still the hint will be useful in
a good many cases.
[Illustration: Fig. 5.
Steel Candy Shears.