Mary Jane candies
As with the greens, sweet potatoes, and yams, white elites in colonial British America also snubbed molasses. But over time, African cooks and street venders in urban centers during the antebellum period helped change the views of whites toward molasses. Candies made with molasses would find their way into the kitchens, tables, and parties of elite homes and inside inns, and local markets soon enough. In plantation regions, enslaved Africans bent “the taste of the Big House toward that of the quarters” argues one historian, “because the slaves as a class, including the rudest field hands, had quietly been making a life for themselves that included a healthy concern with cooking.” Growing up in New York’s Hudson Valley during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, I loved the molasses and peanut taste of Mary Jane candies that became gooey and chewy as it melted in my mouth. In 1914, the Massachusetts based Miller Company first manufactured the candy. The Stark/New England Confectionery Company with roots dating back to 1847, would later purchase the rights to the popular molasses and peanut candy which remains popular and in production today.
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