True Treats
Ginger Drops, Feel-Good Candy
$4.25
The fun, delicious kick of real, natural ginger in a sweet hard candy. A classic mid-1800s sweet from the nation’s first candy company, opened in 1806. Six-ounces in a recyclable bag with the story on a label and a reusable tie for freshness.
A Bit of History
Among the many medicines of old, were the boiled sugars, containing horehound, lemon, ginger and other ingredients we now mainly consider flavorings. In the mid-1800s with the rise of the tasty and inexpensive candies, medicines found a new life as drops. Early on, ginger was used by sailors, who first brought them to North America to treat sea sickness. Physicians, mid-wives and medicine-makers in the apothecaries, as well as women at home, prescribed them to treat a variety of ailments. Later, they found a home in penny candy stores, grocery stores, and grandmothers’ purses.