The GoldenrodI'm having a craving.
Peanut butter salt water taffy from The Goldenrod in York Beach, Maine.
My mouth is watering just thinking about those golden kisses with peanut butter in the middle.
Every time we went to Short Sands in the summer, we would stop at The Goldenrod and stare through the big glass window and watch the taffy be pulled. A few feet over, in the next window, we'd watch every little piece of confection be wrapped in wax paper and go down a slide to join the other pieces of candy.
I'd buy a small box - half full of the peanut butter kisses, and the other half mixed with chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. Mmmm.
And I've discovered that you can order them online.
Here is how the taffy kisses are made - don't they just sound delectable?
The Art & Science of Salt Water Taffy: (from their website)
Cooking: Using the recipe created in 1896 by Edward Talpey, the taffy is cooked to a precise temperature in big copper kettles. Cooking time and temperature vary depending on weather conditions, and the secret of perfect taffy is knowing how to read the New England weather.
Cooling: After reaching the precise cooking temperature, the boiling taffy is poured onto special cooling tables. The taffy is cooled into sheets and when it has been cooled to the right temperature and consistency, it’s transferred onto the pulling machines.
Pulling: This process was once performed by throwing taffy over a hook mounted on the wall and then pulling by hand. Today the taffy is pulled and fluffed to twice its size by the Goldenrod’s highly-polished chrome plated, mechanical pulling machines.
Peanut butter salt water taffy from The Goldenrod in York Beach, Maine.
My mouth is watering just thinking about those golden kisses with peanut butter in the middle.
Every time we went to Short Sands in the summer, we would stop at The Goldenrod and stare through the big glass window and watch the taffy be pulled. A few feet over, in the next window, we'd watch every little piece of confection be wrapped in wax paper and go down a slide to join the other pieces of candy.
I'd buy a small box - half full of the peanut butter kisses, and the other half mixed with chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. Mmmm.
And I've discovered that you can order them online.
Here is how the taffy kisses are made - don't they just sound delectable?
The Art & Science of Salt Water Taffy: (from their website)
Cooking: Using the recipe created in 1896 by Edward Talpey, the taffy is cooked to a precise temperature in big copper kettles. Cooking time and temperature vary depending on weather conditions, and the secret of perfect taffy is knowing how to read the New England weather.
Cooling: After reaching the precise cooking temperature, the boiling taffy is poured onto special cooling tables. The taffy is cooled into sheets and when it has been cooled to the right temperature and consistency, it’s transferred onto the pulling machines.
Pulling: This process was once performed by throwing taffy over a hook mounted on the wall and then pulling by hand. Today the taffy is pulled and fluffed to twice its size by the Goldenrod’s highly-polished chrome plated, mechanical pulling machines.
Wrapping: After being pulled to the proper consistency, the candy is rolled and fed into the kiss cutting machine. 180 pieces per minute of chewy, bite-sized kisses are twisted into Goldenrod’s distinctive wrappers.
The peanut butter ones, right in the middle...I think some drool just slipped out of my mouth.
3 comments:
i love this place.
so many good posts Molly! I didn't know you could order the taffy online- I think I'm going to right now! And don't worry, I think you could snag a rancher :)
I wish I would have known those were your favorites!! Gma and Gpa brought us a bunch of peanut butter kisses from The Goldenrod when they came back from Prince Edwrd's Island. Sorry we ate them all!! They were so good!
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