Sparkle Stories Blog

Fruit cake can be quite delicious. Its dark maple-y texture is sweet, but not too sweet. Studded with red cranberries and green pistachios, it can even wear the colors of the season.

In our modern times, we take citrus fruit for granted, but not so long ago lemons and limes and oranges were actually rare and expensive. Even my own mother likes to tell how she used to get an orange in the toe of her stocking each Christmas morning and it was considered a real treat.

This recipe turns a natural remedy into a more portable form — a honey cough drop. While you could flavor these cough drops with anything you wanted, ginger, cloves, and lemon are three additions that will further help soothe a sore throat.