A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
Apr 28, 2021
3 minutes
IF you hanker after the dark chewiness of a Pontefract cake, the spicy flavour of an aniseed ball or fancy testing your tooth enamel with coltsfoot rock, you can still indulge yourself. These old-fashioned sweets remain available in traditional sweetshops, but did you know that many of them originated as herbal remedies? It was through the process of making these medicines more palatable and portable that they began to be enjoyed for their distinct flavours, irrespective of any
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