11/10/2022 0 Comments Peppermint sticks![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, Imgard neither introduced Christmas trees to America - records prove one was displayed in York, Pennsylvania in 1840 - nor can he be praised for introducing candy canes to America because his daughter Gertrude recounted in a 1938 interview that paper chains, German kuchen (cookies) and gilded nuts filled with scrolls of paper printed with messages and poems were the traditional ornaments her family used on their Christmas trees she made no mention of candy canes at all. August Imgard, a Bavarian-born immigrant who settled in Wooster, Ohio, is often given credit for being “the man who brought the Christmas tree idea to America” in 1847 and for decorating the tree with candy canes, and so introducing them to Americans. It was also a time when Christmas became more widely celebrated across the country and started to center on children rather than adults. Coincidentally, an unproven yet widely circulated story asserts that candy canes emerged in the 1670s when a German choirmaster at Cologne’s cathedral commissioned a confectioner to make stick candy in the shape of shepherd’s crooks (or some argue in the shape of an inverted J for Jesus) to give to children during the Christmas live nativity to keep them quiet during the service.ĭespite not knowing precisely when or where candy canes were first made, evidence suggests that they were not popular in America until the nineteenth century, a time when sugar was even more affordable and available in some form or other to most people. Common flavors at that time included lemon, orange, bergamot, barberry, raspberry, apricot, rose, violet, caraway, pistachio, almond, ginger, and, of course, mint. As a result, recipes for plain or flavored boiled sugar candies became common in European cookbooks by the mid-17th century. At that time sugar became more widely used in Europe and North America because its price dropped reflecting a rise in the number of sugar plantations that used enslaved workers, a sinister side to satisfying a sweet tooth. Peppermint sticks are a type of boiled sweet that became popular in the 17th century. Cutting the ends off of the candy, or cutting the candy shorter, can make it easier to suck lemon juice through the candy. A porous peppermint stick inserted into a lemon makes a lemon stick. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |