Homemade Honey Lemon Cough Drops

Three honey lemon cough drops around a jar of more cough drops with a honey stick, fresh lemon and a blue linen behind them.

Homemade Honey Lemon Cough Drops

These homemade honey lemon cough drops are an easy recipe using real food ingredients. They're quick to make and help to soothe scratchy throats and niggling coughs with all-natural ingredients.

Course Snack

Cuisine American

Prep Time 0

Cook Time 3

Total Time 40

Servings drops

Calories 27kcal

Author Shelby Stover

Equipment

Silicone candy molds

Ingredients

2.5 tablespoons Honey
1.5 teaspoon Coconut Oil
½ teaspoon Lemon juice fresh
¼ - ½ inch Ginger peeled and finely grated.

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a small pot.
Heat the pot slightly over medium heat and melt the ingredients together.
The honey mixture will start to bubble, remove from heat and whisk until bubbles/foam recedes slightly. Replace on heat.
Do this for 2.5-3 minutes, whisking every 15 seconds or so. You want the mixture to get HOT but not to outright burn.
The mixture will start to change color (dark honey color).
After three minutes-ish, pour the mixture into silicone molds but do not fill them all the way. You want the drops to be very small and thin.
Let cool on the counter for twenty minutes then place in the freezer to set.
Pop the disks out when you need them. They are chilled and soothing but they're also sticky once melted (almond-like a taffy) so try not to chew them too much!
Makes 8 drops depending on mold.

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Notes

The trick to making homemade cough drops is that you have to keep the honey bubbling (seems like burning) on the stove.

You also have to keep removing briefly, stirring, and redoing this (read the directions).

It's the bubbling that burns off the goopy aspect and makes the honey into something that resembles hard candy.

Keep an eye on the color: you want it to turn a darker shade.

You'll need a set of silicone molds for these natural homemade cough drops. You can use any molds you like, but my advice is to keep the actual cough drops super thin. Thus, you want medium-sized candy molds, but you don't want to fill them the entire way.

Store the homemade cough drops in the freezer either in the silicone molds or separated between parchment paper so they don't stick.

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