Toffee for Coughs
January 2nd, 2019
1/2 lb Demerara sugar
1 oz butter
2 oz treacle
1 teaspoonful ipecacuanha wine
Boil the butter, sugar and treacle together for 20 minutes and add the wine.
Pour out into a greased tin and when cold break into pieces and keep in a tin for use.
Give a small piece to be sucked slowly, from time to time when the cough is troublesome, but never allow a child to go to bed with a piece in its mouth for fear of choking.
Source: Household Management, E. Stoddard Eckford & M.S. Fitzgerald
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