eBook available: How to Make Candy
For the past few years, we have occasionally worked with Distributed Proofreaders to create Project Gutenberg eBooks of titles from Frank Tousey‘s Ten Cent Hand Book line, a series of inexpensive booklets covering a wide variety of topics from taxidermy to detective work. The most recent addition to this collection of electronic texts is How to Make Candy, which doesn’t serve so well as a contemporary recipe book but is quite fascinating for what it reveals about historical candy-making, which apparently involved such disturbing and dangerous ingredients as tea-cups full of bullock’s blood and the occasional “half a grain” of mercury.
While you obviously should not try this at home, you can find the full text online at Project Gutenberg.
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