Summer Kitchen

Ohio History

Making Candy

Well, we certainly came on the right day—the ladies are up to something in the summer kitchen! In the days before you could buy a hundred different kinds of candy in packages at the store, housewives made their own candy. And that’s what the re-enactors at Carriage Hill were doing the day we visited. You can see the little pot of syrup heating beside the fire in the background. There was more candy cooling on the table. And then there’s that soupy dishwater I was talking about….it would be hard to find me working out here, and not because of the “sink” either, but the heat—that summer kitchen was warm even on a fall day! Just imagine it in the middle of summer!