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Keeping Your Horehound and Hartshorn Straight
Your mother made Christmas cookies using hartshorn, or ammonium bicarbonate Horehound is a plant (marribium vulgare), a member of the mint family, native to Europe and Asia but successfully transplanted to North America. Its leaves are used in making a tea and also a hard candy It is quite possible that your mother made candy with horehound while she was making cookies with hartshorn, which could certainly have led to confusion in your childhood memories. ("Why, for heaven's sake, is mama making bitter candy, when we have all these ammonia-smelling cookies to eat up?" you might naturally have asked.) Horehound |
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