HOREHOUND COUGH DROPS

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There are so many recipes for Horehound Cough Drops most of them are alike this is Mom's recipe

Provided by Eddie Jordan @EDWARDCARL

Categories     Other Snacks

Number Of Ingredients 5

1/4 cup(s) horehound leaves
2 cup(s) water
- honey
2 cup(s) sugar
1/8 teaspoon(s) cream of tar -tar

Steps:

  • Boil the horehound leaves in the 2 cups water for 10 minutes. Discard the leaves.
  • Add twice as much honey as the remaining liquid and stir until smooth.
  • Blend 2 cups of sugar with 1/8 tsp. of cream tar-tar in a sauce pan and add the horehound honey mixture.
  • Stir over medium heat until sugar melts
  • Lower the flame and continue stirring till a dollop of the candy forms a hard ball when dropped in cold water
  • At that point, pour syrup onto a buttered baking dish and cut into small squares, As candy begins to harden.
  • Finally, roll in confectioners. sugar and granulated sugar. And store in airtight container

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