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Classic Scots Cookery
Classic Scots Cookery

By Catherine Brown

Published 2003

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For coughs and colds aniseed or cinnamon, rose or horehound are added to the boiling sugar mixture. Then it’s set and cut into small rectangular ‘tablets of sugar’, to be dispensed by doctors. Sucking allows the slow release of the soothing essences and sugar provides a comforting warmth to the patient.

Those who can afford the sugar cure consume large quantities. The English royal household of 1287 uses 300 pounds of violet sugar tablets and 1,900 pounds of rose sugar tablets, some of which are used as a cure for colds, and also as a cure for consumption and melancholy. Delicate children are encouraged to take either rose or violet sugar tablets for their health. Many purchases are made for Henry, son of Edward I (1237–1307), all recorded in the royal household books, but still are not able to prevent his death at the age of six.

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