Title: Cough Drops
Categories: Herb Candy
Yield: 1 Recipe

Put a half cup of slippery-elm bark and the same quantity of white flaxseed--the whole seed, --into a saucepan or bowl, pour one cup of hot water over them and steepp for an hour, stirring them occasionally. At the end of that time strain through a flannel or jelly bag. Put three cups of granulated sugar in this infusion, set the saucepan over the fire, and stir it for 2 minutes after the sugar melts. Drop the mixture from a teaspoon or candy dipper upopn oiled or waxed paper and leave the cough drops on this until they are entirely cold. Moisten the paper on the under side and they will come off easily. If you wish, you may flavor with lemon juice, peppermint, or wintergreen when you mix the sugar and the infusion.

Source: The Twenthieth Century Cookbook, 1921

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