HOME MADE GINGER ,BASIL TOFFEE (COUGH TABLET)

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Hi,

HOLY BASIL , GINGER COUGH TABLETS!! I have tasted this tablet during my childhood days in nearby petty shop.Those days I hate this toffee but sometimes I was forced by our family to eat this.

Later When I started loving this toffee , petty shops reduced and this toffee also slowly disappeared :(

Recently I came across a video showing home made cough tablets , I immediately remembered my childhood days and wanted to try it. But this time I added holy basil leaves too while making this toffee.The toffee was really nice and it was a great remedy for cough.

The recipe is as below,

INGREDIENTS :

Ginger – about 4” piece – 1 no.

Sugar - 1 cup.

Holy basil leaves / Thulasi – 1/2 cup.

Sugar – 1 cup

Honey – 3 tsp.

Cloves powder -1/4 tsp.

Lemon juice – 1 tsp.

Sugar powder – few tsp for sprinkling.

Water – 1 cup.

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METHOD : 

1. Scrap the skin of ginger and grind it well.
   
2. In a pan add crushed ginger , sugar , basil leaves,cloves powder ,water ,honey ,lemon juice and start boiling at high temperature.
   
   
   
   
3. Boil for 5 mins till the mixture starts caramelizing , when the mixture turns dark coloured ,sticky syrup , remove from flame.
   
   
4. In a butter paper or parchment paper ,sprinkle sugar powder and then drop sugar syrup as coin sized drops ,sprinkle sugar powder and let the tablets dry for about 6 hours or overnight ( you can even refrigerate them).
   
   
5. When tablets become hard and dry , sprinkle few more sugar powder on top of tablets and store in airtight container.
   
6. When refrigerated the tablet stays good even for a month.
   
   
   
   NOTE : 
   1) As I dont have parchement paper I used my silicon moulds.