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Dec 2024
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Frye's Practical Candy Maker, by G.V. Fr...

SHARON HANDY
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Let’s conclude our sweetly sleepy reading from this guidebook for the nineteenth-century maker of fancy candies. This time, creams, chocolates, and syrups for the soda fountain. Deliciously dreamy!

 

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