Clear Toy Candy: All About the Traditional Holiday Treat with Steps for Making Your Own Candy
By Nancy Fasolt
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Clear Toy Candy - Nancy Fasolt
Introduction
Clear Toy Candy, Yesterday and Today
Clear Toy Molds and Their Makers
Ingredients
Making Clear Toy Candy
Recipe Variations
Appendix
Sources
Acknowledgments
Nancy Fasolt, left, making clear toy with her daughter Carrie. JOHN HERR
Growing up on the outskirts of Pennsylvania Dutch Country, I have known clear toy candy for as long as I can remember. It was the candy our family looked forward to every Christmas.
In adulthood, I began making cakes and candies and opened a business, the Cake And Kandy Emporium, to sell my goods. One of my first employees had a small grocery store, and before Christmas one year, she invited me to visit. I was speechless when she opened a large red, white, and green can labeled Shellys Candy Toys. The entire twenty-pound can was filled with the colorful clear toy candy I so fondly remembered from my childhood. Shortly after that, Shellys was sold and the new owner discontinued the production of clear toy candy. At that point, as a candymaker, I felt obligated to begin making clear toy candy and keep the tradition alive.
Meanwhile, the Cake And Kandy Emporium became a haven for cake decorators and candymakers. I attended all available shows and brought highly qualified instructors from the United States and Canada into my shop to teach classes. Clear toy, however, became the trademark of the business. In keeping with my mission of preventing the disappearance of the clear toy candy tradition, I produced a clear toy candy kit, so it can be once again produced in the family kitchen. Today I am working through my Web site www.cleartoycandymoulds.com.
The intent of this book is to provide more information on making this crystal-clear candy toy, so that it may be enjoyed by future generations. By offering a study of the molds, ingredients, recipes, and the methods of both today and yesteryear, I hope to encourage you to keep clear toy candy as a cherished Christmas tradition.
Clear toy candy advertisement, circa 1900.
Clear toy candy is essentially hard, crystal-clear, edible shapes made from a solution of sugar, water, corn syrup, and food coloring. The shapes are formed when the hot solution is poured into molds in which the candy quickly hardens. Barley sugar candy can also be found on the market. Clear toy and barley sugar candy do have a slight difference in taste.