Aniseed Balls

When I was a young girl, my mum and dad used to take me to stay on a farmhouse at Seathwaite in the Borrowdale Valley in the Lake District. The farmer there kept a pack of trail hounds in his barn. When I asked him what these dogs were for, he explained to me that he laid an aniseed trail over the fells which the hounds then followed???

I decided that what he must do is buy a really big bag of aniseed balls from the village shop and then walk over the fells dropping a sweet every few feet so that the hounds could follow the scent!!!