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Traditionally, you pulled candy from a hook in the kitchen wall Rosa Nafrere, left, and Dazmine Jenkins are using a cymbal stand that s been adapted to allow them to handle the hot candy.
When Lynne Casamayor was growing up in Key West, there were lots of ladies in the island s Black neighborhood who would make homemade candy. You could go knock on their door and say, can I get some peppermint candy or glass candy? she said.
But the tradition did not continue. By the time that I moved back to Key West in 2015, there was nobody making that candy, she said.