EGEND has it that toffee apples —like so many delicious foods, including, sandwiches and Worcestershire sauce—were invented by accident. In 1908, a sweet maker from Newark, New Jersey, William W. Kolb, developed a cinnamon sweet, dyed red to appeal to the Christmas market. He created an inventive window display to show off his confection by dipping apples on sticks into the scarlet toffee (or, as he would have said, candy) and lining his shop window with them as a way of enticing
Sweet to the core
Oct 26, 2022
3 minutes
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