Chosen Sweets: A Book of Practical Home Made Candy Recipes

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co, 1923. Duodecimo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 63 pages. FIRST EDITION. "Candy making should be taught and acquired as one of the most useful of womanly accomplishments... This book of recipes has been prepared with the object of providing you a simple and practical guide for the amateur as well as the professional confectioner... There is much profit in candy making and the recipes herein are both simple and elaborate and may assist some one (sic) to make a comfortable living" (foreword). Written at the height of candy's golden age in America, with recipes for black walnut brittle, Mexican klondykes, cream fig kisses, cream dipped oranges, tutti frutti divinity, orange Turkish paste, honey caramels, maple fudge, etc. A bit of age-toning to text block, and some offsetting to endpapers. In publisher's cream cloth, titled and decorated in black and green. A handsome small book, near fine. [OCLC locates thirteen copies; not in Bitting, Brown, or Cagle].