From Mother’s notebook · Regularly made family recipe
Mother’s Herbal Cough Drops
Ingredients
- 1 cup strong herbal tea (herbs unspecified)
- 1 cup honey
- 1/3 cup tapioca flour (intended use not specified)
Original notebook: Equipment
- Silicone cake pan or mold
- Candy thermometer
- Heavy-bottomed saucepan
- Wax paper
Cooking directions
No cooking instructions, temperature, timing, cooling method or yield were recorded in the notebook. The presence of a candy thermometer suggests a cooked candy, but it does not establish a particular temperature or texture. The function of the tapioca flour is also unknown. This is preserved as an incomplete recipe rather than presenting an untested reconstruction as Mother’s method.
Family notebook notes
According to her daughter, Mother made and used these homemade cough drops frequently. The photographed page provides the three ingredients and four pieces of equipment only. There is no continuation page or recorded process. A workable reconstructed cooking method would need separate testing before publication as a finished recipe.
Practical notes
Cooking honey and sugar-rich syrups can cause serious burns. Honey should never be given to children under one year. The original herbal tea ingredients are not identified, so individual herb suitability and interactions cannot be assessed. This is a family recipe archive, not a proven cough treatment.