Homemade Thieves Lozenges

Ingredients;

1 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup water (I used lemon tea instead)

1T lemon juice

1 T honey

1/4 t ginger

8-12 drops therapeutic grade Thieves EO

5-10 drops lemon essential oil 

1/3 cup confectioners sugar

Add granulated sugar, ginger, water (or tea), honey, & lemon juice together in saucepan and put on high. Constantly stir until mix reaches 250*. Reduce heat to low or med-low with lots of stirring for 15 min or until it thickens. 

You can put a drop on parchment paper & see if it solidifies to test if it's ready.  

Once it has slightly thickened, remove from heat and let it slightly cool. Once ready to make drops, then add your essential oils. Don't add while still very hot because they will evaporate. 

Cover with confectioners sugar to prevent them sticking to each other. 

Trial & error:

This is what I found from experimenting with other people's YouTube videos;

•I tried making drops with a spoon or by filling a turkey baster up with the concoction and making drops, but the best way I found was pouring into a measuring cup & using a silicone mold. 

•Don't heat to 300*, it's too hot and it scorches the sugar as some suggest. 

•Don't use the turkey baster bc it's too hot to handle and it cools too quickly thereby getting stuck in the tube. 

•Make a couple of trial drops before making them all. I dropped about 20 then realized they weren't firming up. I scraped them back into the pan and heated to 250* and kept cooking until it looked like (real) maple syrup.