- 2 cups sugar
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup honey
- ¼ cup butter
- 5-10 drops protective blend essential oil
- Put all the ingredients except essential oil in a heavy pan and cook slowly over medium heat until it reaches the "hard crack stage."
- Resist the urge to turn the heat up higher to speed up the process. It will burn unless you keep it on medium and check it often.
- Once you can drizzle a spoonful of the syrup into a cup of cold water and have it turn to brittle threads--take it off the heat immediately.
- Wait about 30 seconds to a minute and then add the essential oil.
- Stir.
- Pour into a buttered cookie sheet.
- Fold edges of the candy into the middle until cool enough to handle.
- Working quickly, pull and roll into long strips...and cut into nickle size pieces.
- Allow to cool completely and harden.
- If your drops have been cooked long enough, you'll be able to store them in a ziploc bag unwrapped.
- If they are a bit soft and still sticky, wrap them in waxed paper squares and store in a ziploc bag.
Recipe by Gracious Rain at https://graciousrain.com/honey-spice-cough-drops/
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