Candy Crimper
Display: Highlights of the Collection
Culinary Technique: forming
Date: c. 1865
Manufacturer: Thomas Mills and Brother Company
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dimensions: 4" h x 16" w x 12" d
Watch collection donor Mel Mickevic demonstrate this object with
Dean Christopher
Koetke, School of Culinary Arts, Kendall College,
and Victoria Matranga, exhibition curator.
As it was fed through this machine, a rope of hot candy was crimped like a ribbon by the interlocking forms that engaged with each other like teeth in a gear. Traditionally popular during the Christmas season, ribbon candy was usually colored in red and green and flavored with cinnamon or peppermint. Several companies in the United States continue to make such "old fashioned" hard candy, and, in Denver, Colorado, Hammond's Candies still uses a machine such as this one.