Okay, I'm from Missouri and I'm highly skeptical.  Let's get serious about this "recipe" noting I'm not shooting the messenger, just trying to figure it out.  Thanks, Bill, for posting it under the VC thread.  I don't have any complaint toward you.  But I think anyone making this mixture is just fooling themselves.
 
First of all, I measured drops of EO.  According to my counting, it took 416 drops to make one teaspoon.  Yeah, I counted.  Twice.
 
1 cup of sugar is 1/2 pound or 8 ounces.  The 2-1/2 lbs. of sugar in this recipe is 5 cups.
 
We're mixing the 5 cups of sugar into 5 cups of water.
 
So we're talking about making a 1:1 syrup, and given the quantities this will make around six cups of syrup.  There are 48 teaspoons per cup so this mixture contains 288 teaspoons of syrup, to which we are going to add 30 drops or roughly 1/14th of a teaspoon EO.
 
This makes 30 drops of EO into 119,808 drops (288 teaspoons x 416 drops per teaspoon) or .025% of a concentrate.  Never mind the 1/8 teaspoon lecithin.  It hardly counts for anything.
 
Then we're going to take 1 tsp of this .025% concentrate/mixture and further dilute it into a quart of syrup, 192 teaspoons.
 
No wonder you make gallons of this mixture for the cost of a bottle of HBH.  There's nothing  to it but sugar syrup.  The percentage of EO is next to imaginery.
 
Anyone else have other thoughts?
 
Grant
Jackson, MO
 
 


      

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