ermini2
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I am so loving pinterest and all the wonderful homemade things I cannot wait to try! I'm sure we all have had our share of colds and coughs and we always seem to turn to a cough syrup or cough drops! Now, with the dilemma of not knowing what goes into our foods, i'm sure we would want to know what we are consuming in our medicines...because after all they are supposed to helping us get better....right? who really knows though! I have found a recipe to make your own cough drops, made with all natural products and herbs.
what you will need:
1. 1 tablespoon or one tea bag peppermint tea leaves
2. 1 tablespoon or tea bag or chamomile tea
3. 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
4. 1/2 teaspoon of ginger
5. 3/4 cup of boiling water
6. 3/4 cup of honey
7. essential oils like peppermint and thieves which is great for the immune system but these are optional.
8. parchment paper
What you need to do:
1. steep peppermint, chamomile, ginger and cinnamon in boiling water for 10 minutes
2. strain off water and pour into a small saucepan
3. add honey
4. heat over a medium heat setting until it starts to boil
5. continue to boil this mixture until the temperature of the liquid reaches 300* (be careful because it can burn easily when it is this hot)
6. let the mixture cool for about 5-10 minutes until the mixture gets syrupy (this is where you would add your essential oils in)
7. drop small spoonfuls onto parchment paper and let it cool.
8. dust these with some corn starch or potato starch to help absorb the condensation and prevent them from sticking together in storage. store in an airtight container!
Hope this helps those of us who would like to be more cost efficient at home!! Enjoy!!
This sounds like something I would try as it's mostly things you already have in the pantry anyway. I don't really like using cough syrups and prefabricated medicine (especially for my child) as there is always the risk of over-dose. And, in the past ten years, the Tylenol company has admitted they used old equipment for manufacture of their child cold and cough medicine which led to micro shards of metal getting into the liquid meds. That kind of made me mad at the company, so I try to boycott their products whenever possible. Anyway, I also read the reason a child cough syrup works is because it's so sweet! Can you imagine? One time, I tested out this theory by using sugar and also honey and it has a similar throat soothing effect for suppressing coughs. No side effects of course. Natural is always best! I will definitely keep this in mind, as cold season is coming up. We might need something like this in the house. Thanks for sharing. :)
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Time is money! That's really true for a busy mom or a dad, whether they work inside the house, as a freelancer or have an outside of the house job. When my daughter was a baby and toddler and much younger, I tried to work a little online (this was before the 'gig economy' hit America, so mostly that was just affiliate marketing and writing) but mostly my job was being a full time mom and I had a ton of spare time for making handmade items like this, even handmade diapers) and would always do these kinds of things. I really like the idea of homemade cough treatments as they seem natural, though possibly I would use a lot of the ingredients in a homemade tea. There's no reason not to do that but as you said, there are a lot of steps! I still like it though :)
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Need to get few more groceries for this one, but looks easy to make
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