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| Kendal: Wiper's | ||
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| Wiper's Kendal Mint Cake | ||
| Street:- | Stricklandgate | |
| locality:- | Kendal | |
| civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | confectioner's | |
| locality type:- | mint cake works | |
| coordinates:- | SD51499288 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5192 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD59 | |
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| evidence:- | old advertisement:- item:- Kendal Mint Cake |
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| source data:- | Guide book and history, Auld Kendal, Westmorland, published by
Atkinson and Pollitt, Kendal, Westmorland, 1st edn 1926. click to enlargePR1665.jpg : 1926: Auld Kendal: Atkinson and Pollitt (Kendal, Westmorland)item:- JandMN : 509 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | object:- item:- packaging; Kendal Mint Cake |
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| source data:- | "A Present from the Lakes / [vignette scenes] / ORIGINAL CELEBRATED / KENDAL MINT CAKE
/ MANUFACTURED BY / ROBERT WIPER / ... / STRICKLANDGATE KENDAL" |
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| hearsay:- |
Joseph Wiper married into the Thompson Family, confectioners, Kendal, 1869. Their
shop was where Kendal Library now stands in Stricklandgate. |
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| While boiling up a solution for glacier mints, the confectioner took his eye off his
job, and when he looked back the solution had gone cloudy and had started to 'grain'.
Poured out and set this was the beginning of Kendal Mint Cake: sugar and glucose and
water plus oil of peppermint, boiled up, and poured at at the right stage, into trays
with mould lines for a tablet. |
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| Joseph Wiper established the Ferney Green Steam Confectionery Works, 1884. He emigrated
to Canada, 1912, and the firm was taken over by his great nephew Robert Wiper. There
was later a Harry Wiper, who retired in 1988; and about then the firm merged with
Romney's. |
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