Old fashioned cough syrup

[Country homesteader]

When my Great-Grandmother was alive and I lived with her. Every time I had a sore throat or a cough she used to fix a homemade cough syrup from honey and a couple other ingredients. I think lemon juice was one and brown sugar was another but I can't remember.
Does anyone know about homemade cough syrup?

 

[lcertuche]

We were so happy to find a tree on our place when we moved here. It was one of the things I prayed about before we moved. I wanted a place with fruit and berries, a pond or creek nearby, a garden spot, a place for chickens and lots of room for the Wildbunch aka my children and grandchildren. We ended up with elderberries, blackberries, apple trees, peach trees, plum trees, three ponds, and three acres of cleared land. My poor husband spends so much time cleaning out the spillway of the big pond and mowing all summer. Be careful what you pray for! But we love it here.
What all this has to do with cough syrup I don't know. Just showing off I guess.

 

[lcertuche]

I read where a study compared honey to cough syrup and plain honey worked as well or (most of the time) better than the cough syrup.

 

[baymule]

I was sick a few weeks ago. I took elderberry syrup that I made by simmering dried elderberries, straining them, and added honey. That was for the crud I had. For the cough and sore throat, I took Kahlua.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Hey - whiskey might help allergies too, lol. I'll be the guinea pig and letcha know!

 

[Britesea]

I don't know about allergies... but seriously, maybe the alcohol in the whiskey kills the germs in the throat when you have a sore throat?

 

[lcertuche]

I will give my family a tbsp. of elderberry syrup any time they cough or feel puny. Whether it really works or not, they think it works. It is a miracle drug around here.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

What a beautiful place!

 

[sumi]

X2! That looks and sounds wonderful!

 

[lcertuche]

It's only rented but we love everything out here. The neighbors are so nice. I walk up on a herd of deer a couple of nights ago by the garden. It's a good thing I finally got a fence around it.