Who invented candy and how?

Linus

Not counting cavemen who may have dug honey from bee hives to enjoy a sweet treat, recorded history traces candy (or 'sweets' to us Brits) to the Egyptians 3,500 years ago. They used honey to sweeten confections of figs, dates, nuts and spices. The Aztecs made a concoction they called chocolatl, a liquid derived from ground cocoa beans and water. But the big growth in candy making came in the 14th century, when Venetians began importing sugar to sweeten their confections. http://www.candyusa.org/Kids/kids_education/careers.shtml http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:1p61ON5QYIkJ:www.som.yale.edu/faculty/pks4/files/personal/dad/nyt_971130.pdf+'earliest+candy' and hl=en and ie=UTF-8 (The second link contains an ampersand between 'en' and 'ie' prior to '=UTF' and therefore may not work when posted to this site). Jun 07 03, 7:34 PM

webfoot

Native American Indians used to tap hard rock maple tree sap in earliest Spring. They boiled the sap, testing it for hardness by spilling a little on the snow--'candy'. They kept some as syrup and boiled the rest down to a maple 'sugar'. (Our white sugar comes from beets and sugar cane, which the Indians did not grow.) Dearborn, 'How the Indians Lived' State of Texas primary textbook, 1927. Jun 07 03, 7:44 PM