The Past and Present of Cane Candy
Release Time:
Jan 06,2025
Every Christmas, candy canes, Christmas carols, holly trees, and mistletoe are essential holiday elements, but how much do we know about these candies?
Every Christmas, candy canes, Christmas carols, holly trees, and mistletoe are essential holiday elements, but how much do we know about these candies? The truth is, we don't know who invented this red and white striped candy at the beginning, when, and where. Now, there are only various speculations and rumors. The earliest prototype of cane candy was likely just a regular white candy stick. At the beginning of the 17th century, exhausted parents used them as pacifiers to soothe restless babies. There is an unconfirmed claim about how the candy stick became a cane like long hook: in the 17th century, a choir conductor at Cologne Cathedral in Germany convinced local candy manufacturers to make the candy stick hook shaped like a crank shepherd's stick, which could attract bored and restless children during Christmas Mass. Another theory is that the shape of this hook is just to make it easier for candy bars to hang on the Christmas tree. The earliest record of cane candy dates back to August Inggard in Worcester, Ohio, in the United States. This German immigrant erected Ohio's first Christmas tree in 1847. This tree is placed on a rotating platform and is actually a hidden sound playing Christmas music. According to the American Candy Association, this small tree is a blue leaf spruce with a star at the top, decorated with paper chains, brown sugar cookies, gold-plated nuts, and (possibly pure white) cane candy. People rushed to come and visit, and soon the Christmas tree and cane candy became a Christmas tradition.At that time, making cane candies was a labor-intensive industry that required manual assembly, rolling, and shaping. However, in 1919, Bob McCormack opened a candy company in Albany, Georgia and began making cane candies. MacCormac's brother-in-law, Catholic priest Gregory Keller, invented a machine that could automatically make hook shaped cane candies, and since then, production has skyrocketed. Today, the annual production of cane candy has approached 2 billion!
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