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'''Leo Hirschfield''' (spelled '''Hirshfield''' in Tootsie Industries history) was an Austrian-American candymaker known as the inventor of the [[Tootsie Roll]], the first individually wrapped penny candy,<ref name=NYTimes8.7.10>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/weekinreview/08manny.html|title=Let Us Now Praise the Great Men of Junk Food|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|author=Fernandez, Manny|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=August 7, 2010|archive-date=August 5, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.ph/w0BO}}</ref> and [[Bromangelon]], the first commercially successful gelatin dessert mix, which preceded [[Jell-O]] by two years.<ref name=CandyCentury>{{cite book |last1=Kawash |first1=Samira |title=Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure|date=2013|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=9780374711108|page=72|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2NyTUwbHrGMC&q=bromangelon+first+commercially+successful&pg=PA72|language=en-US|url-status=live
==Career==
Hirschfield was an [[Austrian Jews|Austrian Jewish]] immigrant to the United States of America,<ref name=ClevelandJewishNews>{{cite web|url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/archives/jewish-stars/article_57571aee-00e2-11e1-a3e8-001cc4c03286.html|author=Bloom, Nate|title=Jewish Stars 10/28|publisher=[[Cleveland Jewish News]]|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=October 27, 2011|access-date=August 5, 2024|archive-date=August 5, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.ph/jZ3ld}}</ref> the son of an Austrian candy maker.<ref name=CompanyHistory>{{Cite web|title=Welcome to Tootsie: Corporate History|url=https://www.tootsie.com/comp_history.php|publisher=Tootsie Industries
In 1895, Hirschfield created [[Bromangelon]], the first commercially successful gelatin dessert mix.<ref name=MyRecipes/><ref name=CandyCentury/>
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