Three Rock Sugar Remedies for a Dry Scratchy Throat | When the Season Turns

Rock sugar three ways for a dry, scratchy throat

The first cool morning after a long summer always brings the same thing. Dry throat, scratchy cough, the feeling that you swallowed sand overnight. The Cantonese answer has always been rock sugar. Clean, mild, easy on the stomach. Here are three classic pairings worth keeping in the kitchen for the season change.

The first is rock sugar stewed snow pear, the textbook remedy. Halve a snow pear, scoop the core, fill with a chunk of Ship Brand Crystal Rock Sugar, steam for thirty minutes. The juice that pools in the pear belly is the part that matters. Sip it warm.

The second is rock sugar lily bulb soup. A handful of dried lily bulbs, a small piece of rock sugar, water, low simmer for forty minutes. Cool and clear at the back of the throat.

The third is rock sugar tangerine peel water. A small wedge of aged tangerine peel, a piece of rock sugar, hot water, steep ten minutes. Warming where the pear is cooling.

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Why this sugar

Made with Ship Brand Crystal Rock Sugar. Clean, mild, easy on the throat. Shop the collection.

Rock sugar carries no molasses, no bitterness, no caramel note. That neutrality is the whole point in throat remedies. The pear, the lily bulb, or the tangerine peel does the work; the sugar just rounds the edge and helps the body absorb it.

Ship Brand (帆船牌) is the retail line of Yuen Tung Sugar Factory Industrial Company Limited. Sugar refined in Hong Kong since 1948. Shop the collection.