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old fashioned cotton mouth (from the deleted page). Anyone who can find a reference on google, please let me know!! Also, if you make some and have any comments please let me know on my talk page.

Cotton Mouth

Cotton Mouth is a glycerin based liquid food product. My experience with it was many years ago in the midwest when soda fountains still existed in drugstores (the pharmacist would mix it up). It is easily made at home as well. The flavor is added via essential oils. The glycerin aids in incorporating the oil, and as glycerin is water soluable, it is mixed with water to dilute the, some might say, odd after taste of pure glycerin (it is NOT a type of sugar and if you taste it plain it is very similar to, for example, Sweet and Low liquid sweetener). In fact, any liquid sweetener might work, but they didn't all exist way back. The name comes from the fact that Cotton Mouths generate saliva, thus relieving dry mouth. How well this works is for one to decide on one's own. It is a safe and fun candy, however, and if you've seen essential oils anywhere, you can see there are dozens and dozens of possible flavors.

Recipe

Traditionally, this liquid is mixed and served in 1.5 oz or 2 oz brown eye dropper bottles (the picture below shows one 2 oz bottle with lemon flavor and one 1.5 oz bottle with cinnamon). The base is equal parts water and glycerin, though it can be adjusted to individual tastes. Depending on the oil, a few drops up to dozens might be needed. Most common varieties include cinnamon, peppermint, wintergreen, lemon, and clove. The brown bottles are good for keeping out sunlight which I believe is to stop breakdown of the oil (or sugar), but I don't know for certain. To summarize how easy this is to make:

1. 1.5 oz or 2 oz (or whatever you want!) brown eye dropper bottles
2. Equal parts water and glycerin (adjust to your taste)
3. Drops of essential oils to taste
4. Shake up bottle, just a little, to mix
5. Squirt as much or little as you want into your mouth, but probably NOT into your eye

Flavors

Note that some oils are true essences (extractions of the item) and some are flavorings (replicas of the original items taste). These are the only ones I've made recently, so I won't comment on the old ones I don't exactly remember. You'll also find that certain flavors will be most notable on certain parts of your tongue.

• Lemon: Takes a lot of drops. Tastes like a liquid version of the hard lemon drop candies.
• Cinnamon: Takes few drops! If you are brave, try a tiny dot on your tongue of the pure oil (burns, huh?). Not surprisingly tastes like red hots in liquid form
• Clove: Few drops. Well, it's odd. You must try it. There is something both wrong and good about it. I can recommend you don't put a drop of the pure clove oil on your tongue (yyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!), but it wouldn't be fun if you took my word for it.

Flavors I might not want to ever try:

• Butter
• Peanut Butter (I like it on bread, but in liquid form?)
• Anise
• Menthol (uh!)
• ginger
• eggnog
• pumpkin (oh no. That one makes me choke a little just thinking of it.)

Flavors I must try:

• Cotton Candy
• Capuccino
• root beer
• butter rum

look here for a listing of the flavors: Lorann Oil Flavors

Conclusion

There might be a shelf life on the taste, but I'm not sure.

You might be able to find these ingredients online at one place. Not to push any product out of self interest, but as far as I know Lorann is the biggest or only distributor of essential oils for baking/cooking. There is animal or vegetable glycerin. I have no opinion about which is better. I was only able to find vegetable recently, but in the past I had it with animal glycerin, I'd assume. I had some difficulty finding the bottles, but they do exist. You can always try something as frustrating (for me at least) as going to the container store if you're in the U.S. In the distant past it was much easier to get ... it was all at the drugstore ... then you could sit down for a good vanilla or cherry or chocolate coke (not like Vanilla Coke in the cans now ... yuck).

I'd love comments if anyone tries other flavors or has recommendations. I also hope someday this will make it back on the main pages (maybe I'll put it back into the social common knowledge!). Of course, then I'd half to remove all my non NPOV comments.

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