Chocolate Molasses Kisses

Chocolate Molasses Kisses

Ingredients:
2 cups of coffee A sugar,
1/3 a cup of glucose, (pure corn syrup),
2/3 a cup of water,
1 cup of molasses,
2 tablespoonfuls of butter,
1/4 a teaspoonful of salt,
4 ounces of Baker's Premium Chocolate,
1 tablespoonful of vanilla extract, or
1 teaspoonful of essence of peppermint.

Directions:
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Put all the ingredients, save the salt, chocolate and flavoring, over the fire;
let boil rapidly to 260°F., or until brittle when tested in cold water. During
the last of the cooking the candy must be stirred constantly. Pour onto an
oiled platter or marble; pour the chocolate, melted over hot water, above
the candy; as the candy cools on the edges, with a spatula or the fingers,
turn the edges towards the center; continue this until the candy is cold
enough to pull; pull over a hook until cold; add the flavoring, a little at a
time, during the pulling, cut in short lengths and wrap in waxed paper.
WALTER BAKER & CO., Ltd.
ESTABLISHED 1780
This House has grown to be the largest of its kind in the world and it has
achieved that result by always maintaining the highest standard in the
quality of its cocoa and chocolate preparations and selling them at the
lowest price for which unadulterated articles of high grade can be put upon
the market. Under cover of a similarity in name, trade−mark, label or
wrapper, a number of unscrupulous concerns have, within recent years,
made attempts to get possession of the great market won by this House, by
trading on its good name−−selling to unsuspecting consumers goods of
distinctly inferior quality by representing them to be the products of the
genuine "Baker's." The quantity of goods sold in this way is not so much of
an injury to us as the discredit cast upon our manufactures by leading some
consumers to believe that these fraudulent articles are of our manufacture
and that we have lowered the high standard maintained for so many years.
It is difficult to bring the fraud home to all consumers, as those who are
making use of it seek out−of−the−way places where deception will the
more easily pass.
We have letters from housekeepers who have used the genuine Baker goods
for years, expressing their indignation at the attempts of unscrupulous
dealers to foist upon them inferior and adulterated articles by fraudulently
representing them to be of our manufacture.
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Statements in the press and in the reports of the Pure Food Commissioners
show that there are on the market at this time many cocoas and chocolates
which have been treated with adulterants, more or less injurious to health,
for the purpose of cheapening the cost and giving a fictitious appearance of
richness and strength. The safest course for consumers, therefore, is to buy
goods bearing the name and trade−mark of a well−known and reputable