12/30/2023 0 Comments Zotz candy origin![]() For stress, they enjoyed a blend of jasmine and spearmint, either as a calming tea or dropped into bath water for a sweet, relaxing soak. For headaches, a tasty blend of marjoram, sage, rose, and lavender. For coughs and colds, colonists used a mixture of horehound, thyme, and honey. Eighteenth century North Americans treated common ailments with a variety of herb and spice-based teas. Colonial Apothecary Box: Colonial era medicine in North America blended the apothecary practices of Europe with the herbal knowledge of the Native Americans.First made in the 1500s, this brew was said to cure headaches. Our bestselling blend, a Colonial Headache Remedy Tea, combines lavender, rose flower, sage, and marjoram. Botanical Blends Box: Apothecaries of the 1700s were stocked with herbal brews, including a cough and cold remedy tea made from honey, horehound, and thyme.Selections include horehound drops, licorice root, tree resin, peppermint stick, strawberry filled candy and many more – providing a full taste of sugars and sweets in a timeless box. Some originated in North America, many came from regions far beyond and are considered American today. This box includes candy that evolved from antique gardens, those grown with care in the 1700’s and 1800’s, as well as orchards and the wild. Antique Garden Collection Box: Candy came from medicine and medicine from plants.Most important, they’ll find a letter from the Time Traveler written just for them, telling them about each selection. 1700s Time Capsules: Now the perfect chance for kids to experience history in an entirely new way, with a time capsule filled with 18th century sugars and sweets, such as candied peels, Turkish delight, sugar plums, and stain glass.1700s Sweet Shop in A Box: An 18th Century sweet shop in a box, with a variety of sweets of the time, such as cane and sorghum sugar, crystallized ginger, sugar plums, licorice root, stain glass and more.Many common fruits, nuts, and spices arrived in the 1500s to 1700s and brought with them new forms of confections…and all the symbolism that went with them. EnduringĬandied Peels and petals, chocolate sticks, sugar plums, & other sugary treats. Healthy Eats Box: Want a healthy snack from a time before snacking was even a concept? Want to go back to the day when everything was healthy, medicinal, or symbolic? Then take our sliding box with eight first-in-history Take-A-Breaks, including Biblical and Native American selections. ![]() They’re delicious on cereal, in smoothies, on baked goods… a staff favorite is to enjoy them on french toast! This box contains three 4-oz. Together, the fruit sugars of the Native Americans and the European brought cane sugar represent the blend of traditions and cultures that forged America. Fruit & Sugar Box: Later, newcomers to North America brought cane sugar with its distinctive flavor and tangled past. ![]() Enjoy with honey, sugar, milk, or whatever comforts you and offers a promise of lightness ahead. Boil water and add a tablespoon or two to taste. Aztecs prized marigolds for magical, religious, and medicinal purposes. ![]() Half a world away, the Iroquois used the mild tasting white oak bark to treat loneliness from a broken heart. Marshmallow root soothed the body while olive leaf brought peace. The Ancient Egyptians and Romans highly valued chamomile and lavender as restorative cure alls. Comfort From The Heart Tea Sampler: When life was difficult, when stress prevailed, people through the ages have turned to botanical teas to bring comfort to their hearts.Chrysanthemums, prized by ancient royalty, were thought to possess the power of life, while Aztecs revered marigolds as the apex of magic and healing. The much esteemed dandelion cleansed the blood. The Biblical rose and hibiscus brings calm and sweet dreams and chamomile endowed with healing properties. Botanical Bliss Tea Sampler: Botanicals have always been exuberant in their display of life and their gift to the living, used since antiquity as a curative tea.A wonderful way to enjoy Biblical food history for you, your family and a gift for anyone else. The story of the sugars, and their significance, are on the label with a quote from the Bible. Biblical Sugar Sampler: This collection contains a variety of sugars which are cited in the Bible – used for various purposes and in various ways, including – cane sugar, bee honey, sorghum drops, date sugar and many more.Grapes and almonds, flavorful with their promise of good beginnings. Honey drawn from bees and fruits, ancient sweeteners. The fragrant herbs such as lavender and hibiscus, believed to be the Rose of Sharon, brewed as tea. Biblical Sampler Box: Botanicals of the Bible live among us today, valued for their flavors, curative powers, meaning.
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