Honey Spice Throat Drops Season

100 Happy Days #54

Ahhh…here we are again, at that lovely time of year. My absolute favorite, to be exact. Leaves changing and falling everywhere. The holidays approaching. That nippy cool snap in the air. But with all this loveliness also comes the musty furnace coming on at night and the cool air coming on in the day. It’s a balance from hour to hour to not roast or freeze. At our house, sometimes all these changes brings an occasional bout of scratchy throats for the big and little folks.

Must be time to whip up a batch of Honey Spice Throat Drops! Yummo.

Now, I need to tell you–if you venture out and make your own throat drops using this recipe, please, PLEASE understand  how to test for the Hard Crack Stage.

This is the test:

The hard crack stage in candy making is the point at which heated sugar syrup reaches a temperature of 300 to 310 degrees F, leaving it with a sugar concentration of about 99% as almost all the water has boiled away. At this temperature, the molten sugar acts like liquid glass; when dropped into cold water, it immediately forms hard, brittle threads that snaps cleanly and break with a sharp crack rather than bending. 

Because the weather can change the moisture in the air, from place to place–it’s important to do the test faithfully. It’s pretty aggravating to follow the directions and have the same temperature I use actually not set up, or worse, burn in your area. Do the test and your drops will work.

Mine were a tad more sticky this time because it was raining outside while I was making them. I should have cooked them a minute or two longer. But they still tasted great and did the job.

Yee haw. I love these things!

Honey Spice Throat Drops RECIPE