Christmas in a Candy Kitchen
Attn Warriors:You are welcome to reprint this article as long as you include myresource box with the active link to my website and don'tchange the content of the article.DIFFERENT DESIGNS/DIFFERENT FILLINGS by Jane M. D. OsinskiChristmas in a candy kitchen...surely a child's dream come true.And so it was in the Devendorf household, with Alice Devendorf's Candies.
Chocolate coated delicacies were chosen and packed in rows beside chocolate and vanilla caramels.
Her vanilla, coffee, chocolate, peppermint, and wintergreen creams were mailed from Asheville, North Carolina all around the world.
But busy as Mother was at Christmas time, there was always time enough for the Devendorf children to earn candy gifts for friends by shelling containers for her candies and helping Daddy wrap packages.
Lively music accompanied the tck-tck of her candy fork on the chocolate buckets.Candy boxes were laid out to be packed and delivered to the Asheville Biltmore Hotel, grove Park Inn and Rhetta Bollinger's Gift shop.
The long flat Indian basket from the Everglades was filled with candies for the teachers in our schools.
Smaller baskets and pretty jars held candies for exchange with friends.
Pulled mints made rainbows in their jars.
As Daddy wrapped parcels of Mother's caramels, creams, and pulled mints for mailing, we helped by holding the string.
Often our fingers were gently tied into the cord on the package.
Daddy laughed and asked, "Where do you want to be mailed this time, Ohio or Timbuktu, or....?"
Then he would read off the labels as he put them on the packages:
"Warren, Ohio; Columbia, Missouri;
Los Angeles, California; Orlando, Florida;
Atlanta, Georgia;
Raleigh, North Carolina;
St. John's, Newfoundland...."
When he had received enough "help" Daddy put a candy sticker on our forehead, extracted the helper's finger from the string, and gently pushed us out the door.
With Daddy's help, we turned into Pixies and set the table so Mother and Birdie could concentrate on her candy.
We shelled extra container's in contests designed to save Mother time and energy.
Often, the helping was done in secret. On Birdie's day off Mother made candy alone.
She needed to spend her time making candies to fill the orders, so she had little time for cooking meals.
Daddy donned a huge apron and mixed waffles or pancakes for us.
Sometimes he even made creamed beef on toast. As Christmas neared, my early letters to Santa included a request for Lollipops.
Not an item in Mother's candy kitchen, she thought up a "coated saltine" which satisfied my sweet tooth.
Before long, it was also in demand by her regular customers. Mother set her chocolate coated morsels on different designs of embossed wax paper.
If you knew the code, as she did, you could easily pick out the vanilla, coffee, chocolate, peppermint and wintergreen creams.
At age five, I couldn't remember the code.
If I was looking for something besides a coated saltine, I couldn't distinguish it by sight.
So, just before their Christmas party, I chose by taking a bite from the bottom of every piece on the plate, as Mother discovered to her chagrin. Alice Devendorf's Candies graced the tables of Mrs. George Vanderbilt at the Biltmore Estate, Mr. Winship Nunally in Georgia, Mr. Pack in New York, as well as the trees of many friends in Asheville and elsewhere.
The trees might be elegantly decorated with all blue lights, trimmed by children with only popcorn and paper ornaments, or bowed down with family heirloom decorations.
Alice Devendorf's Candies were among the favored decorations. Daddy and Mother enjoyed variety, rather than one-tone perfection in blue lights.
always, they maintained room for different designs in children, as well as in Alice Devendorf's candies. ENDExcerpt from Behind The Candy Kitchen Door ? 1986 by Jane M. D. Osinskielectronic version now available along with Alice D's candy recipesRead free chapters of Jane's book !http://www.behind-the-candy-kitchen-door.comSubmitted by Sharon Osinskihttp://www.seed2money.com/Jane's_page.
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By 1997 I had progressed fairly well in the company and was cruising along quite happily with fairly good prospects in sight.
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