[FOOD & DRINK -- CANDY] GRILLON, OctaveBiblio.com
Practical pan man’s guide: containing the best recipes for the manufacture of Dragee and useful advices in general pan work. . . .
1911réf. 56762New York: Octave Grillon 307 W. 24th St. 1911. 12mo. 191 1 pp. Numerous text illustrations photo plates. Burgundy-coloured ribbed cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine minor spotting edgewear slight scuffing back cover still VG copy. First edition of this very scarce candy making work detailing the processes for manufacturing the beloved French coated candies Dragee which many of us still eating a variation as M & M’s. Other forms included coated almonds decorative metallic balls Dragees with gum drop centers nougat centers and many others. Grillon b. 1865 was as an award-winning candy maker and foreman at a candy factory in New York who had immigrated from Beaugeney France in 1907 and winner of the Culinary Exhibition Gold Medal in 1899 at Toulouse. Worldcat locates 2 copies U of Chicago Nat. Lib. of Scotland; See: Publisher’s Weekly Nov. 4 1911 p. 1477. Octave Grillon, 307 W. 24th St., hardcover
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