January 2011
5 posts
How Our Foremothers Coped with Sore Throats
Good for the throat: Honey, sugar, butter with a little salt, liquorice, to sup soft eggs, hyssop, a mean [moderate] manner of eating and drinking, and sugar candy. Evil for the throat: Mustard, much lying on the breast, pepper, anger, things roasted, lechery, much working, too much rest, much drink, smoke of incense, old cheese and all sour things are naughty for the throat.
—The Kalendar...
“How to make apricot wine:
Take sixteen pounds of the pulp of the apricot when...”
– Granny’s Recipes, Remedies, and Helpful Hints (via drupettibone)
“How to Whiten Hands:
1. Stir one-fourth pound of Castile soap, and place it...”
– Granny’s Recipes, Remedies and Helpful Hints (via drupettibone)