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Today’s Boston Globe <\/a>has a great article and video<\/a> about a Lawrence, Massachusetts candy making institution — Priscilla Candies — and the seasonal specialty of making 3 foot-long candy canes. Seems like it’s time to pay a visit and interview the oldtimers who still know how to pull candy by hand. It is also interesting to learn about the Christian symbolism of the red and white striped candy cane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Boston Globe has a great article and video about a Lawrence, Massachusetts candy making institution — Priscilla Candies — and the seasonal specialty of making 3 foot-long candy canes. Seems like it’s time to pay a visit and interview the oldtimers who still know how to pull candy by hand. It is also interesting … Continue reading “Candy Canes Still Made by Hand and Muscle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[73],"tags":[106,107],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foodways","tag-candy-canes","tag-candy-making"],"yoast_head":"\nCandy Canes Still Made by Hand and Muscle - Keepers of Tradition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/candy-canes-still-made-by-hand-and-muscle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Candy Canes Still Made by Hand and Muscle - Keepers of Tradition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today’s Boston Globe has a great article and video about a Lawrence, Massachusetts candy making institution — Priscilla Candies — and the seasonal specialty of making 3 foot-long candy canes. 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