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American Confections: Selected Titles on the Art of Confectionery 1825-1938 Science Reference Section Science, Technology and Business Division Library of Congress

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Acton, Eliza. Modern confectionary. Derby, Printed by H. Mozley [etc.], 1826. 213 p.
   TX717.A184

Austin, Alma H. The romance of candy. New York, London, Harper & Brothers. 1938. 234 p.
   TX791.A8

Bache, Elizabeth Du Bois. When mother lets us make candy. New York, Moffat, Yard and Company, 1915. 134 p.
   TX791.B25

Crowen, T. J., Mrs. Every lady’s book: an instructor in the art of making every variety of plain and fancy cakes, pastry, confectionary...by a lady of New York. 2nd ed. New York, J. K. Wellman, 1845. 108 p.
   TX715.C9485

Frye, George V. The housewife’s practical candy maker, comprising recipes for the finest home-made candies, especially adapted for manufacture in the American kitchens. Chicago; New York, Belford, Clarke & Co., 1889. 169 p.
   TX791.F92

Home Candy Makers. The art of home candy making. 2nd ed. Canton, OH, The Home Candy Makers, c1909. 107 p.
   TX791.H77

Hood, C. L. & Co. Hood’s books of home-made candies ... Lowell, MA, 1888. 16 p.
   TX781.H78

Johnson, W. A., Mrs. Cake, candy and culinary crinkles. Louisville, KY, Pentecostal Publishing Co., 1912. 222 p.
   TX715.J66

Jones, Annie Maria. Homespun candies: simple and thoroughly tested recipes for candy to be made at home. New York, Rohde and Haskins, 1904. 16 p.
   TX791.J77

Kilbourn, Alice Maud. Killy’s candies. South Lancaster, MA, Alice M. Kilbourn, c1915. 40 p.
   TX791.K5

Oliver, Pearl. The pure food candy book. Fort Worth, Patton & Steine, c1918. 16 p.
   TX791.O4

Pease, Martin A. The blue book of home candy making. Bloomington IL, Pease, 1923. 71 p.
   TX791.P37

Powell, Mary Elizabeth. Sweets for the sweet: home candy making. Cleveland, Printed by the Publishing House of the Evangelical Association, c1914. 64 p.
   TX791.P86

Recipes for home made candies. Milwaukee, Published for the benefit of Young Peoples’ Library Fund, 1891. 11 p.
   TX791.R29

Richardson, Anna Martin, Mrs. Home made candies and other good things sweet and sour. Cincinnati, R. Clarke & Co., 1890. 94 p.
   TX791.R52

Rorer, Sarah Tyson Heston, Home candy making, by Mrs. S. T. Rorer. Philadelphia, Arnold and Company, c1911.
89 p.
   TX791.R8

Short, Pearl Rose. Chosen sweets: a book of practical home made candy recipes, by Pearl Rose Short. Chicago, R. R. Donnelly & Sons Co., 1923. 63 p.
   TX791.S5

Warford, Aaron A. A complete hand book for making all kinds of candy, ice cream, syrups, essences, etc., etc. New York, F. Tousey, 1884. 60 p.
   TX791.W27

Waterman, Amy Harlow, Mrs. A little candy book for a little girl. Boston, The Page Company, 1918. 144 p.
   TX791.W3

Weatherley, Henry. A treatise on the art of boiling sugar, crystallizing, lozenge-making, comfits, gum goods, and other processes for confectionary, etc., in which are explained, in an easy and familiar manner, the various methods of manufacturing every description of raw and refined sugar goods, as sold by the trade, confectioners, and others. Philadelphia, H. C. Baird, 1865. 131 p.
   TX791.W36 1875

Wright, Mary M. Candy-making at home: two hundred ways to make candy with home flavor and professional finish. Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company, 1915. 188 p.
   TX791.W8

Woman’s World Magazine, Inc. The Candy calendar. Chicago, 1923.
   TX791.W65

Compiled by Alison Kelly
February, 2007