Hoarhound Candy

Hoarhound Candy...

Hoarhound candy is a favorite cough remedy. To one quart of water add a small handful of hoarhound herb (NOTE: Please sure of the source and quality of your hoarhound herb!!!), and boil 1/2 hour. Strain, pressing all the liquid from the herbs. Add 3 pounds brown sugar, and boil to the "hard crack". Put in a piece of butter as large as a walnut. When the butter is dissolved, pour the mass on a greased platter or marble slab. When almost cold, square off with a knife.

FROM: The American Pure Food Cook Book and Household Economist (The Marguerite Series, No. 141, Feb. 1899, Subscription Price $ 6.00/year) © 1898, Geo. M. Hill Co., Publisher, Chicago, Il.