Lollipops from cough with honey and ginger

There are many recipes for making candies from honey, which will not only be tasty, but also useful. Well-proven honey candy with the addition of "breastfeeding". For the preparation take a collection of medicinal herbs called "thoracic". He has proven himself as an expectorant for a restorative. Collect the pour with boiling water, insist for 20 minutes, then filter. Add honey to the resulting broth in a ratio of 1: 2, boil this mixture until thickening occurs. Once the mixture becomes thick, you can pour the mixture into molds and allow it to solidify. If desired, you can decorate the top with granulated sugar or powder, add lemon juice or grated zest.

You can also make lollipops according to another recipe: with the addition of lemon juice and grated peel. To prepare, you need 300 grams of honey, about 2 teaspoons of butter and about 10 drops of essential oil. It is important to pay attention to the fact that the oils must be food intended. Oils contribute to the removal of the inflammatory process, prevent the appearance of infection. In addition, they soften mucous membranes, stimulate natural immunity and saturate the body with vitamins. The advantage is that the healing properties will persist even longer if they are placed in the refrigerator.

Lollipops from cough with honey and ginger

Alternative medicine has many cough remedies. There are even such means that children take for a delicacy, they eat with pleasure, and at the same time they are treated. It turns out that when you have a cold and cough, you do not have to go to the pharmacy and buy medicines. At least, in the purchase of candy or tablets for resorption from cough, there is definitely no need. Lollipops can be cooked at home on their own.

Such candies have a number of advantages. They are much longer stored. They are prepared at home from natural ingredients, do not contain any food additives and dyes. Therefore, you can be absolutely calm, and not be afraid of side effects. In addition, their children are happy to eat, because they are associated with delicacy, but not with medicines. The child can even show imagination, and take part in their manufacture.

Traditionally, they make lollies from ginger with honey. Ginger has antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties, kills pathogenic microflora, normalizes metabolism and restores normal microbiocenosis. Honey has a softening effect, eliminates inflammation. Honey contains a large number of vitamins and trace elements, provides nutrition and recovery of the mucous membrane. Normalizes the state of the immune system, has antioxidant properties, removes toxins and metabolic products from the body. It has a calming effect on the nervous system.

Lollipops are easy to prepare. Children can not be limited in the use of candies, because they have excellent preventive properties. It is especially recommended to use them in the midst of epidemics of influenza and other infectious diseases, if the person was in contact with infectious patients. Lollipops can be consumed not only by children, but also by adults.

Prepare lollipops for absolutely the same plan as conventional candy, only add the necessary ingredients. First, caramel is prepared. To make it, you need sugar and water. To eat them, unlike usual sweets it is possible much, as negative influence of sugars is neutralized by positive action of honey and ginger. They combine two properties - they are both tasty and useful.

After the caramel mass is obtained, honey and grated ginger are added to it. After this, the candies are poured into silicone or other molds. Wooden sticks carefully mix all this. Molds or cookware for cooking, you can pre-moisten with vegetable oil, which will avoid sticking the mass to the walls, and burning.

After the mold has been filled, we place it on the fire. On a slow fire, it is brought to a molten state, as a result of which the mixture turns into a thick, molten mass. Then you need to constantly make sure that the honey is in a boiling state, but does not run. The mixture should boil for one and a half hours. After that, the mixture should thicken. As soon as it begins to stretch with thin threads, you can start to pour it on small molds for further hardening. After that, the candies will be ready for use.

When making lozenges from ground ginger, it is important to make sure that it is evenly distributed over the mixture and does not get lost in a lump. If it collapses, its useful properties can not only diminish, but also completely disappear. It is important to observe the amount of ginger. It should not be much. If you add a large amount of ginger, the candy will become bitter. Proportions look like this: 300 grams of honey take 1 teaspoon of ginger.

There are many different recipes for sugar candies. For example, many children like cough drops with the addition of spices. They have immunostimulating effects, significantly increase the body's resistance, eliminate cough. For preparation take one and a half glasses of water and a glass of sugar. Finely chop the root of ginger, clove. Separately squeeze the juice of one lemon. All these components are mixed together, begin to cook on low heat with constant stirring. After the sugar is completely dissolved, honey is added to the resulting mixture, transferred to medium heat. Begin stirring, warm until the mixture turns into caramel mass. As soon as the emulsion thickens and ceases to spread, the candies are ready. After the mixture begins to set, ginger and cloves neatly get out, then put a lot of spoon in the molds or on paper.

Also children like mints with ginger and honey. For their preparation, dry leaves of mint and chamomile will be required. Take about 2 tablespoons of the mixture. Fill it with boiling water, boil for about 10 minutes. After 30 minutes, the resulting broth is filtered and half a glass of honey is added to it. Also add half a teaspoon of cinnamon and ground ginger. Boil until the mixture thickens. Then the candies are poured into molds, they give the opportunity to freeze. From above you can sprinkle with coconut shavings, powdered sugar.