Home-made Cough Candies.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue XIX, 9 May 1903, Page 1293

Home-made Cough Candies.

Cough candies are in demand now, and in iny an old-fashioned housekeeper pr - pares these* by her favourite recipe. One well tried formula calls for an ounce, each, of powdered cubebs, powdered lico-

rice, and powdered gum arabic. Sift all these articles together thoroughly. Mix a dram of oil of anise seed with a third of an ounce of oil of cubebs. Mix the oils into the powd r. adding half a pound of powdered sugar. Add now a very little warm water, just enough to make a very stiff mass when worked togdher thoroughly. Care must lie taken

not to add too much water. There must be a very still mass or dough when the oils are stirred through and the water is added. Dust a smooth, hard pastry board with powdered licorice, and roll out the mass about as thin as piecrust. Cut it into troches, and let the candies dry on plates in a room of ordinary temperature for two or three days.

One of these troches laid on the tongue to melt will often stop a severe coughing spell, and these candi -s are an excellent remedy in the case of a heavy hoarse cold, which seems to be aggravated chiefly by continual coughing and irritation of the bronchial tnites and wh re there are no more dangerous symptoms present.