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Chocolate Molasses Kisses
2 cups of coffee A sugar, 1/3 a cup of 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 No. 1 Chocolate, 1 tablespoonful of vanilla extract, or 1 teaspoonful of essence of peppermint.
Put all the ingredients, save the salt, chocolate and flavoring, over the fire; let boil rapidly to 260 degree 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 manufacturers 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 articles by fraudulently representing them to be of our manufacture.
It is a comparatively easy matter to cheapen the cost and give a fictitious appearance of richness and strength to cocoa and chocolate preparations by adding foreign substances and employing artificial coloring matter. The detection of these adulterations, while easy for the expert, is difficult for the cook or housewife.
The safest course for consumers, therefore, is to buy goods bearing the name and trade-mark of a well-known and reputable manufacturer, and to make sure by a careful examination that they are getting what they order. Our Chocolate and Cocoa Preparations are ABSOLUTELY PURE--free from coloring matter, chemical solvents, or adulterants of any kind, and are therefore in full conformity to the requirements of all National and State Pure Food Laws. We have behind us one hundred and thirty-six years of successful manufacture, and fifty-seven highest awards from the great industrial exhibitions in Europe and America.
We ask the cooperation of all consumers who want to get what they order and what they pay for to help us--as much in their own interest as ours--in checking these frauds.
WALTER BAKER & CO.'S Cocoa and Chocolate Preparations BAKER'S BREAKFAST COCOA In 1=5 Ib., 1=4 Ib., 1=2 Ib., 1 Ib. and 5 Ib. tins is absolutely pure, and no chemicals are used in its preparation. It is of greater strength than cocoa mixed with starch, arrowroot or sugar, and it is therefore more economical.
It is delicious and strengthening.
As a portion of the oil in the cocoa bean has been removed, it is easily digested and admirably adapted for invalids as well as persons in health. BAKER'S PREMIUM NO. 1 CHOCOLATE In 1=4 and 1=2 Ib. cakes, 1 Ib. packages, blue carton, yellow label It is the pure product of carefully selected cocoa beans, to which nothing has been added and from which nothing has been taken away. Unequalled for smoothness, delicacy and natural flavor. Celebrated for more than a century as a nutritious, delicious and flesh-forming beverage. The high reputation and constantly increasing sales of this article have led to imitations on a very extensive scale. To distinguish their product from these imitations Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., have enclosed their cakes and pound packages in a new envelope or case of stiff paper, different from any other package. The color of the case is the same shade of deep blue heretofore used on the Baker packages, and no change has been made in the color (yellow) and design of the label. On the outside of the case, the name of the manufacturer is prominently printed in white letters. On the back of every package a colored lithograph of the trade-mark, "La Belle Chocolatiere," sometimes called the Chocolate Girl, is printed. Vigorous proceedings will be taken against anyone imitating the package.
Trade-mark on every package BAKER'S VANILLA CHOCOLATE In 1=2 Ib. and 1=6 Ib. cakes and 5c and 10c packages, is guaranteed to consist solely of choice cocoa and sugar, flavored with pure vanilla beans. Particular care is taken in its preparation, and a trial will convince one that it is really a delicious article for eating or drinking. It is the best sweet chocolate in the market. Used at receptions and evening parties in place of tea or coffee. The small cakes form the most convenient, palatable and healthful article of food that can be carried by bicyclists, tourists and students.
Trade-mark on every package CARACAS CHOCOLATE In 1=8 and 1=4 Ib. packages A delicious article. Good to eat and good to drink. It is one of the finest and most popular sweet chocolates on the market, and has a constantly increasing sale in all parts of the country.
Trade-mark on every package CENTURY CHOCOLATE In 1=4 Ib. packages A fine vanilla chocolate for eating or drinking. Put up in very artistic wrappers.
Trade-mark on every package AUTO-SWEET CHOCOLATE In 1=6 Ib. packages A fine eating chocolate, enclosed in an attractive wrapper with an embossed representation of an automobile in colors.
Trade-mark on every package GERMAN'S SWEET CHOCOLATE In 1=4 Ib. and 1=8 Ib. packages is one of the most popular sweet chocolates sold anywhere. It is palatable, nutritious and healthful, and is a great favorite with children. Beware of imitations. The genuine is stamped: "S. German, Dorchester, Mass." Trade-mark (La Belle Chocolatiere) on every package DOT CHOCOLATE In 1=6 Ib. and 1=2 Ib. cakes; 12 Ib. boxes A high grade chocolate specially prepared for home-made candies, and for sportsmen's use. If you do not find it at your grocer's write to us and we will put you in the way of getting it.
In "The Way of the Woods--A Manual for Sportsmen" Edward Breck, the author, says: "Chocolate is now regarded as a very high-class food on account of its nutritive qualities. * * * * * A half cake will keep a man's strength up for a day without any other food. I never strike off from camp by myself without a piece of chocolate in my pocket. Do not, however, have anything to do with the mawkishly sweet chocolates of the candy shops or the imported milk chocolate, which are not suited for the purpose. We have something better here in America in Walter Baker & Co.'s "Dot" brand, which is slightly sweetened." CRACKED COCOA OR COCOA NIBS In 1=2 Ib. and 1 Ib. packages, and in 6 Ib. and 10 Ib. bags This is the freshly roasted bean cracked into small pieces. It contains no admixture, and presents the full flavor of the cocoa-bean in all its natural fragrance and purity. When properly prepared, it is one of the most economical drinks. Dr. Lankester says cocoa contains as much flesh-forming matter as beef.
Trade-mark on every package