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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.


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.








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