Candy shops would make fairy floss covered chocolate, fairy floss covered Easter eggs, and all other types of weird and wonderful concoctions.
In , Wharton and Morrison took their machine to the St. Louis World Fair, the first fair that fairy floss was ever introduced to. Do you want to know how much sales they made on their first day?
They sold nearly 69, boxes at 25 cents each. Why did Lascaux create such a beast of a fairy floss machine? To introduce a sweet little treat to his dentist patients… perhaps the most ingenious way to ensure continued business growth and a long lasting legacy into the 20th century!
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Still, spun sugar was tricky and labor-intensive, and it remained—until the advent of the cotton-candy machine— a snack or dessert of the leisured rich. After all, even a serving of cotton candy the size of your head contains less sugar than a can of Coke, and unlike, say, corn dogs, it contains no cholesterol, no sodium, and no fat.
And nowadays it even comes in such flavors as mango chili, salted caramel, strawberry lemonade, and lychee green tea. All rights reserved. Share Tweet Email.
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The resulting sugar cobweb collects all around the inside of the big pan, and you can use a paper cone to lift it out and wrap it up into the familiar pouf. Candyfloss machines make this process relatively simple, but long before they existed confectioners were still trying to get something like this to happen to sugar. Then you return with the knife to pick up another strand, continuing as long as the sugar remains molten — hopefully long enough for you to get enough sugar threads wrapped around your mold to make a nice web or nest to put delicacies in.
Luckily for those of us who do not possess such wells of patience and dexterity, in two Americans applied for a patent for a candyfloss machine. Deadly dull descriptions notwithstanding, the thing was a hit. At the World's Fair in St Louis, Morrison, who happened, ironically, to be a dentist , and Wharton sold spun sugar to all comers. According to a lovely and authoritative Gourmet article by Bruce Feiler, they sold a whopping 68, boxes.
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