Home Remedy Recipes
Sweet Cough Syrup
This is a soothing throat remedy for problems brought on by exertion - singing, running in cold weather, etc.
Ingredients
- 1 lemon
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 tablespoon glycerin
Instructions
- Cover the entire lemon with water in a small saucepan. Boil for 1 minute.
- Remove from heat. While still hot, slice the lemon in half and squeeze all the juice into a bowl, removing seeds.
- Stir in the glycerin and honey.
- Store the syrup in a sterilized glass bottle, tightly capped, on a shelf.
- If the syrup becomes too cold, warm it slowly by setting the jar in a pan of warm water.
- The syrup will keep for up to 2 months.