Sugar Ornaments and Edible Toys

Appears in
The Christmas Cook: Three Centuries of American Yuletide Sweets
The Christmas Cook

By William Woys Weaver

Published 1990

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  • 1. Nellie Eyster, Sunny Hours (Philadelphia: Duffield Ashmead, 1865), 189.
  • 2. See for example, the German chromolithograph firms discussed in Christa Pieske, Das ABC des Luxuspapiers (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1983).
  • 3. The Confectioners’ Journal 4 (October 1878), 24.
  • 4. Katherine B. Johnson, “Christmas Bon-Bons,” Housekeeper’s Weekly 3 (3 December 1892), 12.
  • 5. Lettice Arnold, “Her Booke. Given by the Lady Lett. G.” (Herefordshire, England: 1638), unpaginated.
  • 6. There is a small 16-page pamphlet history of clear toy molds by collector Albert C. Dudrear called Clear Toy Candy: History—Mould Makers—Recipe (York, Pa.: Privately printed, 1983). It contains photocopies of old catalogue price lists.
  • 7. “Christmas,” The Post (Philadelphia), 20 December 1828.
  • 8. Jessup Whitehead, recipe 222 “Candy for Christmas Toys,” The Hotel Book of Fine Pastries (Chicago: National Hotel Reporter, 1881).
  • 9. “Two Old Recipes,” Confectioner and Baker 6 (April 1901), 21.
  • 10. James W. Parkinson, ed., The Complete Confectioner (Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, 1849), 89.
  • 11. John Comly, Comly’s Reader and Book of Knowledge (Philadelphia: Thomas L. Bonsal, 1850), 143.
  • 12. Refer, for example, to C. Anne Wilson’s The Book of Marmelade (London: Constable & Company, 1985), 30-37.
  • 13. Eliza Allen Howland, The American Economical Housekeeper (Worcester, Mass.: A. S. Howland, 1850), 112.
  • 14. Mrs. Prances Owens, Cook Book and Useful Household Hints (Chicago: American Publishing House, 1903), 394. This book first appeared in 1884.