Bl4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 29,1983
Snowman Brings Sweet
BY BETH HEMMINGER
Staff Correspondent
NEWVILLE The Lloyds are a
very sweet family.
They really put their teeth into
their work and set their tastebuds
tingling.
It all started five years ago with
one little snowman. Betsy wanted
to make a few simple pieces of
decorative candy for her four
children during the holiday season.
She purchased the snowman mold,
the'confectionery coating and went
to work! Going to work is exactly
what she did. A neighbor saw the
little sweet creation and ordered
some for herself and also took it to
her place of employment to show
the little snowman off. Shortly
after the snowman’s first ap
pearance, the orders came rolling
in.
From one small snowman,
Lloyd's Candy got its start. And
Betsy added, “It all happened by
word of mouth.”
Betsy and her husband, Bob,
spurred the business along by
sending samples of all of their
sweet treats to offices and fac
tories to give their potential
customers an idea of what they
were getting. Bob, the financial
manager of the home-made
business said, “This sampling
helps sales tremendously. The
customers like to see and touch the
merchandise - it’s better than any
sales pitch or catalog we could
provide.”
With cool weather finally here,
Betsy is once again into candy
making activities. The Lloyds
make candy from October to May.
During late spring and summer the
candy melts too rapidly for any
real production. So, Betsy said,
“We close down the candy kitchen
and catch up on other chores; and
there is a lot living on a small
farm.”
Now with Halloween, a sweet
lovers holiday, and Christinas fast
approaching, the Lloyd household
is geared up for candy making and
selling. The kitchen is turned into
the candy production area, while
the dining room is the packaging
and distribution section.
This five-year-old family
business has grown rapidly, but
Betsy remarked, “My investment
in materials for the business has
been minimal." Over the years she
has added extra frying pans to her
equipment, totaling five to date.
Her largest investment has been in
candy molds, of which, she has
collected from 350 to 400 molds.
And she has also acquired several
extra helping hands, her children
Bill, Bob, Chris and Jenny and her
husband, Bob. Betsy’s and Bob’s
parents, brothers and sisters and
their families also get into the act
when extra help is needed in
Here is a display of the Halloween candies: witches,
goblins, ghosts, decorated in the seasonal colors by Betsy.
Business to the
Betsy Lloyd of Lloyd’s Candy, New Ville, stands in her candy
kitchen making Halloween candies. Here, she is decorating
with the confectionery coat before pouring on the final cover
ing of coating when it will be ready for the freezer.
wrapping, bagging and boxing the
orders.
According to this candy maker,
it is all rather simple. But, that is
questionable 1 .
According to the Lloyds,
ingredients are an. important part
of their product.
“You have to use quality
ingredients, such as peanuts,
raisins, pretzels, cashews and the
most important ingredient, con
fectionery coating,” Betsy said.
She explained that confectionery
coating is used in a large portion of
candies especially decorated and
solid candies. The coating is made
of a main ingredient, sugar, and
the others are oil, milk, non-fat dry
milk, lecithin, vanilla, artificial
flavorings and salt, and the brown
coating also contains cocoa.
The coatings are available in a
variety of colors such as white,
orange, yellow, pink, green, and
blue to name just a few. The Lloyds
travel to lititz to purchase the
coatings from Wilbur Coating Co.
The process starts by melting
down the 10-pound bars of con
fectionery coating in the frying
pan. Once Betsy has all the colors
and she needs melted down, she
begins decorating her numerous
molds, such as the Halloween
treats, the ghost, witch and
goblins. It may sound simple, but
Lloyds
every eye, nose, mouth, hair, hats
and clothing are all put on by hand
using the coating. Alter the
decorating is completed, the molds
set for several minutes while the
decoration dries. Once the
decorations dry, the final layers of
coating are poured into the molds.
Then the candy is placed in the
freezer and remains there until it
is solid and can be removed in one
piece from the molds.
After the candy is removed from
the molds they are ready for
wrapping, boxing, sales and
someones awaiting tastebuds - a
home-made treat with won
derfully, delicious results!
Even though Halloween is such a
candy-giving holiday, according to
Betsy and Bob the biggest sales
are for Christmas and Blaster with
Easter rating number 1. For the
Christmas season, the Lloyds
usually have orders for ap
proximately 30,000 pieces of their
candy, including all the different
kinds they make.
Yes, they even make (lipped
candies. These dipped confections
include peanut, cashew and raisin
clusters, mints and Betsy’s own
special invention, crunch bites.
Crunch bites contain rice crispies
covered with the confectionery
coating, a delicious morsel for any
sweet tooth. These confectioners
also make chocolate covered
pretzels.
“The covered pretzels are
delicious, but we sure have to eat a
lot of the pretzel pieces,” Bob
remarked.
Betsy only dips the whole
pretzels, usually covering up to 35
pounds. According to Bob, there
are a lot of pretzel pieces in a bag;
he should know be has eaten a lot.
The covered pretzels and dipped
candies are a big hit during the
Christmas season, however, the
Lloyd’s also produce the delicious
candy for other occasions too, such
as weddings and anniversaries.
To keep abreast of this sweet
business, Betsy and Bob attend the
National Candy Show held in
Philadelphia twice a year. They
see all the new plastic molds
available to makers, the latest in
machinery and confections and
new decorating ideas.
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