A Horehound Thank You & A Little OT

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> *I'm trying to run down a source for the oil or extract from the

> horehound root. And while I'm asking, does anyone out there have a

> recipe for cooking up a batch of hard horehound candy? I'm afraid

> horehound drops are one of my many vices, but the older I get the

> harder

> they are to find.

>

> Here ya go! This may be more than you want to know! LOLOLOLOL

>

> Neysa Dormish <the-neysa wrote :

 

> Horehound Candy

 

> Ingredients

> a.. 1 cup horehound tea

> b.. 4 cups sugar

> c.. 2 cups dark or light corn syrup

>

> Boil horehound leaves to make a good strong tea. Drain, reserving 1

> cup of liquid. Add the cup of tea to the other ingredients and boil

> until it just starts to caramel. Put onto a flat greased cookie sheet.

> Start cutting with kitchen shears or scissors as soon as it starts to

> harden on edges.

 

Dear Neysa and Everyone Else Who Replied To My Horehound Querry,

 

THANK YOU, Thank you & thank you! As I set here writing, early this

Sunday afternoon, I'm sucking on an " King- Sized " stainless steel and

horehound candy sucker. I arrived at this contraption/invention by

failing to shake the very last globule of my candy from the soup spoon I

was using to empty a saucepan onto the cookie sheet where my batch of

candy was cooling. I set down the spoon to answer the phone and by the

time I got back to it, my candy had completely cooled and cemented

itself that soup spoon. I did have the presence of mind to place the

spoon down on a piece of wax paper. Or the whole mess would've probably

welded itself to my kitchen counter top! The long and short of all this

is that I have never tasted a finer batch of horehound candy than one

made from the first of three recipes Neysa Dormish sent to all of us in

answer to my very first post to this group. Thank you again Neysa! (Oh

yes, I used dark Kayro in my batch of this goody).

 

The most bewildering thing to me (being the ten thumbed, ham handed

bachelor that I am) about my entire horehound adventure into Candy Land

is the whole thing went off without so much as a hitch The First Time!

No less!! On average I generally have to screw things up several times

or more before I get a new project anywhere close to being right! I was

either lucky, the Lord was looking over shoulder, I had some good

teachers or maybe this time around I just got a good equal heaping

helping of all three!

 

And now for an Off Topic remark. Somewhere in the late nineteen-eighties

I quit having birthdays and started having anniversaries. So in the

latter half of last month when I was just getting started in trying to

fortget the eleventh anniversary of my thirty-fifth birthday, my

girlfriend ups and gives me my forty-sixth " birthday " present! (Yes I

know, I just do not have her conditioned yet!) This breach of etiquette

was wholey forgiven when I got a look at all the goodies she was handing

me for my mumblety-mumbleth birthday. I know this should be posted on

Thurday, but I simply do not know how much longer the FIRE SALE prices

that my grilfriend paid for my gift are going to last. So if anyone is

interested buying someone you love a Christmas present for less than one

quarter of it's retail cost, please ckick the following link to see what

I'm talking about. http://www.survivalplus.com/cd_sale.htm

 

All The Best,

Cary Jeffries

 

 

 

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Dear Neysa and Everyone Else Who Replied To My Horehound Querry,

 

THANK YOU, Thank you & thank you! As I set here writing, early this

<snip>

my candy had completely cooled and cemented

itself that soup spoon. I did have the presence of mind to place the

spoon down on a piece of wax paper. Or the whole mess would've probably

welded itself to my kitchen counter top!

 

ROTFLMAO! I am so glad the recipe worked well for you. I tend to keep weird

and unusual recipes so if you need another, just holler!

 

The long and short of all this

is that I have never tasted a finer batch of horehound candy than one

made from the first of three recipes Neysa Dormish sent to all of us in

answer to my very first post to this group. Thank you again Neysa! (Oh

yes, I used dark Kayro in my batch of this goody).

 

) My pleasure, youngun!