In many parts of the world hoarhound has become naturalized on dry, poor soils, and is even a troublesome weed in such situations.
An old author gives the following recipe for hoarhound candy: To one pint of a strong decoction of the leaves and stems or the roots add 8 or 10 pounds of sugar.
Bees are very partial to hoarhound nectar, and make a pleasing honey from the flowers where these are abundant.
This honey has been almost as popular as hoarhound candy, and formerly was obtainable at druggists.
The numerous branching, erect stems and the almost square, toothed, grayish-green leaves are covered with a down from which the common name hoarhound is derived.
Dey dosed 'em up wid oil and turpentine and give 'em teas made out of hoarhound for some mis'ries and bone-set for other troubles.
Hoarhound tea and catnip tea are good for colds and fever.
I don't know nothing about no herbs, they used for diseases; only boneset and hoarhound tea for colds and croup.
Then Aunt Martha gave him some hoarhound candy to bite the dogberry, so it would leave the catnip alone, but blood will tell, and the hoarhound joined with the dogberry and chased the catnip up Uncle Peter's family tree.
Hoarhound is excellent for coughs, and is particularly useful in consumptive complaints, either as a syrup or made into candy.
My grandmother always kept a supply of hoarhound and peppermint lozenges in her knitting basket to give us children should we complain of hoarseness.
There were red and white striped mint sticks, striped yellow and white lemon sticks and hoarhound and clear, wine-colored sticks striped with lines of white, flavored with anise-seed.
The thing advertised was an article called "Pease's Hoarhound Candy;" a very good specific for coughs and colds.
The consequence was, every reader was misled by the caption and commencement of his article, and thousands of persons had "Pease's Hoarhound Candy" in their mouths long before they had seen it!
In fact, it was next to impossible to take up a newspaper and attempt to read the legitimate news of the day without stumbling upon a package of "Pease's Hoarhound Candy.
In the same year that Pease's hoarhound candy appeared upon the commercial and newspaper horizon, the "Governor Dorr Rebellion" occurred in Rhode Island.
The reader would often feel vexed to find that, after reading a quarter of a column of interesting news upon the subject uppermost in his mind, he was trapped into the perusal of one of Pease's hoarhound candy advertisements.
This is variously known as Water-hoarhound and Water-bugle.
Make a sugar syrup, adding the hoarhound to it; let it boil up and stir against the sides of the pan until it thickens.
Hoarhound tea can be put in the water and the steam inhaled.
Boil the hoarhound in a little water till the strength is extracted.
Put a tablespoonful of dried hoarhound leaves in a cup and pour over them half a cupful of boiling water, cover and let it steep until cold, strain and pour it over a pound of granulated sugar and a tablespoonful of vinegar.
The plantane orhoarhound will either of them cure alone, but they are most efficacious together.
Lungwort, maiden-hair, hyssop, elecampane and hoarhound steeped together, is an almost certain cure for a cough.
Some of them are making peanut brittle, some caramels; and in the last kettle I believe they are boiling hoarhound candy.
We used wild hoarhoundtea for de chills an' fever, an' sweet gum turpentine, an' mutton suet.
When any of us got sick, we was give hoarhound tea and rock candy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoarhound" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
