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COUGH LOZENGES If you were to accidently cook a syrup for too long at too high a heat and cool your "mistake," you would probably end up with a hard herbal candy (lozenge) which would be impossible to remove from the pot! If you want to make throat (or cough) lozenges on purpose, first cook the honey or molasses to the 'hard-crack" stage on a candy thermometer. Then add your dry herbs for about 10 minutes of simmering or steeping. It won't matter if the honey cools off somewhat when the herbs are added if it was already at the "hard-crack" stage of heat. The reason you add the herbs second is that it takes honey or molasses perhaps half an hour or more to get hot enough, and this might overcook the herbs. Spread this hot mixture (or place in small blobs) onto a buttered cookie sheet to cool. When the mixture is partially cool it will be easy to score it with lines to facilitate breaking it up later. These tasty, broken bits are your new cough drops! How to make Slippery Elm cough syrups From 10 Essential Herbs   Copyright 1992 Lalitha Thomas, Published by Hohm Press, used by permission.