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Fletcher Manufacturing Company

Best remembered through a practical candy-making guide, this late-19th-century Toronto company blended manufacturing know-how with hands-on instruction for confectioners. Its surviving book offers a lively glimpse into the tools, recipes, and working methods of an earlier sweets trade.

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The Candy Maker's Guide

The Candy Maker's Guide

by Fletcher Manufacturing Company

About the author

Fletcher Manufacturing Company was a Toronto, Ontario firm known for making confectioners' and candy makers' tools and machines, along with soda fountains, tea and coffee urns, and related hotel supplies. Sources available here describe the company as especially active in the late 1800s.

Today, the company is most often remembered as the credited author of The Candy Maker's Guide, a practical collection of recipes and techniques for sugar boiling and confectionery work. That connection gives the name an unusual place in book history: not an individual authorial voice, but a working business sharing the knowledge of a trade.

For listeners interested in food history, industrial history, or old-fashioned confectionery, Fletcher Manufacturing Company represents the kind of specialist maker that helped shape everyday commercial craft behind the scenes.