Ingredient families by lot
| Archival lot | Core ingredients | Shared handling |
|---|---|---|
| Lot 01 Honey Lemon | Wildflower honey, cane sugar, Meyer lemon peel | Botanical, no dairy, no nuts |
| Lot 02 Anise Squares | Anise seed, cane sugar, cream of tartar | Botanical, no dairy, no nuts |
| Lot 03 Wintergreen Mints | Wintergreen leaf infusion, cane sugar | Botanical, no dairy, no nuts |
| Lot 04 Horehound & Honey | Horehound leaf, wildflower honey, raw sugar | Botanical, no dairy, no nuts |
| Lot 05 Violet & Rose | Violet essence, damask rose water, cane sugar | Botanical, shared bench |
| Lot 06 Sassafras Drops | Sassafras root, cane sugar, vanilla bean | Botanical, no dairy, no nuts |
| Lot 07 Clove & Orange | Clove bud, bitter orange peel, cane sugar | Botanical, shared bench |
Shared handling in a small room
Our kettle room is one open space of roughly four hundred square feet. Kettles are washed between lots, the marble table is scraped and wiped between cooks, and the press is brushed down at the end of every day. That said, the bench, the drying racks, and the air in the room are shared across all seven lots.
- Tree nuts, peanuts, sesame, and egg are not used as ingredients in any current lot.
- Milk and butter appear in the fudge-adjacent seasonal work only, which is never packed on the same day as the archival lots.
- Wheat flour is not used in the kettle room; the packing bench handles only paste, parchment, and tin.
- Soy lecithin is not used in any current lot, and no lot contains a glazing agent.
Botanical notes worth reading
Several lots are built around strong botanicals. Horehound, sassafras root, wintergreen, anise, and clove are all traditional candy counter flavors, and all of them carry a distinct taste that some people find intense. Anyone pregnant, nursing, or managing a medical condition should speak with their own clinician before eating large quantities of botanical confections.
Sassafras in particular is a flavor of historical interest. Our drops use a culinary root infusion in the small quantities traditional to hard candy, and the lot is offered as a tasting confection rather than a daily sweet.
Texture, storage, and honest expectations
- Hard lozenges and pulled drops may carry a faint sugar bloom in humid weather; the texture is unaffected.
- Soft floral pastilles will soften further in a warm kitchen. Move the tin to a cool pantry shelf.
- Because pieces are pressed and cut by hand, weight and count vary slightly from tin to tin.
- Batch cards print the kettle number, press date, and tasting window; the tasting window is a craft note, not a safety date.
What this page does not claim
Nothing in this catalog is offered as a treatment, remedy, or health product. Descriptions of horehound and honey reference flavor tradition, not therapeutic benefit. Any statement about gentleness or comfort refers to texture and taste alone.
If a household allergy is severe, write to the counter before ordering and we will describe the exact day the lot was cooked and packed. We would rather answer a careful question than have a gift arrive that cannot be opened.