I said I wouldn't discuss the weather unless we have a blizzard! Well guess what, this morning it rained, the rain froze, the roads are icy, and now it is blowing and snowing. Many roads are closed Spring is just around the corner but I don't know which one. In Winnipeg the flood forecasters are preparing for spring floods, filling sandbags, building up the dikes. The province purchased a "gizzmo" to cut holes in the ice in the Red River, to help prevent ice jams. Just watching the TV with the terrible news of the earthquake in Japan. I think I 'll take the blizzard.
Enough of the weather, how many of you collect recipes? My mother had a scrapbook full of recipes that she cut out of the local papers. I still have that scrapbook. Gord's mother did the same. Some of her recipes were handwritten. English Pork Pie which calls for one whole leg of pork, Everton toffee, Ginger beer and this one:
Tonic for Spring for the Blood
Puruvean Bark
Jention Root
Qussia Chips
2 Tablespoons Epsom Salts
1/2 Gallon Water
Boil slowly for 24 hours, strain
1 Wine glass, morning and night
Gord remembers his grandmother making this and having to drink the stuff.I have never heard of those ingredients.
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Hello Al. Jennie in Wales here. Fascinating recipe - the Peruvian Bark (also known as Jesuit's bark) is a source of Quinine; the Jention root would be Gentian root I presume and was a tonic, but also had specific uses for stimulating appetite/speeding up a sluggish digestion etc, weight gain,and blood builder used during convalescence; Quassia root would be for dyspepsia too. These very bitter herbs, with the Epsom salts, would have tasted like a real Devil's brew! No constipation after taking this!!! I wonder if it was a recipe which travelled out from England?
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