Pillow Mint Machine
Display: Sweet Inventions
Culinary Technique: forming
Date: c. 1890
Manufacturer: Thomas Mills and Brother Company
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dimensions: 10.75" h x 15" w x 8.5" d
Watch collection donor Mel Mickevic demonstrate this object with
Dean Christopher
Koetke, School of Culinary Arts, Kendall College,
and Victoria Matranga, exhibition curator.
A rope of hot candy was fed between the two rollers. The top wheel pressed the candy against the knives of the lower wheel to cut lemon drops, pillow mints, or cough drops and eject them down the brass ramp.