A Selection of Old-Time Recipes for Cough Sweets and LozengesThis antique book contains a collection of easy-to-follow recipes for making old-time cough sweets as they were made in the past. The recipes included in this book are concise and simple, making this text perfect for the amateur confectioner and anyone interested in recreating these old-style sweets. A worthy addition to collections of antiquarian confectionery literature, this one is not to be missed by the confectionery enthusiast. The chapters of this book include: Cough Candy, Cough Drops, Hoarhound Candy, Irish Moss Cough Candy, Licorice Cough Candy, Brown Cough Drops, Light Cough Drops, Tar Cough Drops, On the Manufacture of Lozenges, Medicated Lozenges, Mixing for Common Mints, and much more. This text has been elected for modern republication due to its timeless instructional value, and we are proud to republish it here complete with a new introduction on confectionery. |
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add a tablespoon brown sugar buttered pans Catechu cloves cold break Confectionery COUGH CANDY COUGH DROPS Cough Lozenges dissolve the gum dissolved gum Arabic dissolved gum sufficient drachms drop machines dropped into cold dust eight ounces essential oil flavour four ounces Fourteen pounds G.R.L. Powdered Glucose glucose and water gum mucilage gum tragacanth half an ounce half cup half ounce Health Barley Sugar inch ipecacuanha IRISH MOSS jalap lemon juice liquorice loaf sugar lozenge paste lozenge should contain Lozenges.—Sugar four pounds Lump Sugar medicated lozenges mixture Nutmeg oil of anniseed Oil of Peppermint otto of roses ounce powdered tartaric Oval cutter palate knife paste with dissolved pectoral peppermint lozenges pints Water pounds of lozenge pounds of powdered pounds of sugar powdered sugar powdered tartaric acid quantity quart of gum RECIPE Rhubarb round cutter saffron saucepan slipperyelm bark starch powder stir strain syrup Turkey rhubarb warm place