![]() Refinements and variations on the traditional lollipop are myriad. By 1931, Tootsie Roll Industries had inserted their chewy Tootsie Roll into the center of the traditional lollipop, which is also still going strong. The Spangler Candy Company purchased that company in 1953 and continues to expand the line. Apparently, even at that early date marketers were wise to the fact that the name meant everything-Dum Dum was believed to be a name that any kid could say, and ask for by name. However, it is known that George Smith, a candymaker who liked to eat a competitor's chocolate caramels on a stick, attached a hard candy to a stick and referred to this creation as a lollypop (named after a favored racehorse of his named Lolly Pop).ĭum Dum Lollipops were first manufactured by the Akron Candy Company inġ924. We cannot be certain which company first began to mass produce these confections. No molds were necessary and thus the lollipop forms were rather haphazard. Older cookbooks make it clear that these lollypops were frequently made at home as hard candies that were simply dropped onto wax paper in globular form, with a wooden stick inserted into the hot syrup until set. These sweet hard candies were sometimes put on the end of pencils and sucked on and were popular around the time of the American Civil War. Charles Dickens refers to candies on a stick in his novels of the mid-nineteenth century. It is difficult to know when lollipops were first made by home chefs. Spangler Candy Company produces over one billion Dum Dum suckers a year, and the world's largest lollipop maker, Tootsie Roll Industries, turns out 16 million lollipops per day. ![]() Manufactured lollipops are consumed in huge quantities. Adults have increasingly turned to them to kick addictions to nicotine, because the motion of taking the sucker in and out of the mouth mimics the motion of the hand when smoking. Children love them for their sweetness and novelty. They are beloved by both adults and children. While lollipops may be made at home, most people purchase inexpensive suckers at a local store. Recently, molds for domestic lollipop-makers have been developed and are easy to obtain. Colorings and flavorings are commercially available. The home lollipop-maker may add any desired colors or flavorings just before the lollipop is poured into the mold. As the solution cools, it takes the shape of the mold, becoming "glass-like," as it may be broken or cracked like a piece of glass. When the concoction is hot (and it is very hot-hot enough to severely burn the skin) it is plastic or malleable, and may be poured into molds that can be purchased in a variety of shapes. A gas or electric stove may be used, with the temperature monitored using a hand-held candy thermometer until it reaches 310☏ (154☌), or what is referred to as the hard crack stage. Sugar-corn syrup solutions are cooked until the concentration of the solution reaches a high level, and this supersaturation of sugar remains upon cooling. Lollipops are not complicated to make and do not really require special equipment for home production. No matter what size, the lollipop is made primarily of sugar, water, corn syrup, and flavorings. There are the very small and popular "Dum Dum" lollipops with fruit and other flavors the Tootsie Pop-slightly larger and filled with a chocolate chewy center the Blow Pop with its gum center and very large suckers that take all day to eat-such as those often found at circuses and carnivals. Lollipops take an astonishing array of forms. The tightly wrapped white paper stick serves as a handle, and the hard candy lollipop is either sucked or bitten apart until consumed. Lollipops, or suckers as some call them, are essentially hard candies with a short stick of some sort.
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