I would like to share something else with you guys today, and once again this comes from Sandra in Mississippi, “Hey Sandra…what’s up??
Sandra sent to us a Folk Medicine from Vermont, and the timing couldn’t have been better!! Why you ask? Well it seems that the Koonti plant is poisonous, and there seem to be many varieties of plants that are very similar in appearance to the cattails, which are also poisonous.
Although these similar plants don’t have the big brown heads found on the cattails…and this is the defining difference, be careful. I’m beginning to lean to the side of caution. Oh, I’m gonna cook em up, and I’m gonna eat some, but I believe I’ll let ole Dale try out my first batch! LOL!!
Don’t you folks fret this one bit! We here in Miz Judi’s Kitchen believe in safety and preparedness! So with that said, I just want you all to know that we’ll not allow ole Dale to take the first bite of them cattail shoots, without having a big ole jar of Miss Sandra’s “Folk Medicine From Vermont,” on hand!!
So…without further delay this morning, here’s “Folk Medicine From Vermont,” via, Mississippi!
For all your readers in CFP land. Folk Medicine from Vermont
Honegar
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup cider vinegar
Combine honey and vinegar.
To use as a concentrate mix one tablespoon with a glass of water.
Drink daily or have with meals.
Keeps aches and pains away.
Mix with sour cream or yogurt, dill and cucumber for salad or use as dressing on greens.
Lemon Honey
Grate the rind of one lemon and mix with a cup of honey.
Sandra
Thank you good people for stopping by today, we really appreciate you guys doing so!
We wish you all the best in everything you do, and God Bless!
Dub and Deb
Hey Sandra; great info and good for so many things. When I was working in greenhouses I always took a quart of water with three tablespoons of honey and three of apple cider vinegar mixed in it. It went in the fridge in the breakroom. I drank that during breaks to replace the electrolytes I had sweated out. Oh, ‘scuze me, women perspire, men sweat!
I think with prices on a daily escalation we need to at least explore some of the tried and true old remedies again, like honey and lemon for a cough. That sure beats my mother’s remedy. She filled a pint jar with old rock candy (anyone remember that?), poured it full of white liquor and sat it on a shelf. It was NEVER stirred. When all of the rock candy was melted it was ready to use. All of us young’uns became professional closet coughers at early ages it was so awful. If you wanted to alter the taste a little bit you could boil some wild mint and put a few spoons in it. Then it was REALLY awful! Thanks again, and have a beautiful day!
Bonnie Hollingsworth, being from the deep south and a long linage of very southern women, I assure you women here did not even perspire, they became moist and damp. Kid you not. My mothers remedy to illness was something called “Haslet”. The newly harvested innards of a young pig, cooked down with onions, celery, garlic and some bay leaves. Served on rice. When she called the butcher to make the order, it was like a miracle, I became better and better. By the time she returned with that big roll of white paper full of innards I was very moist and damp and on the road to recovery. I would have much preferred some wonderful rock candy melted down in a jar of moonshine. But you see my Mother was of the Christian Temperance people. “Haslet for me, none for Thee” lucky you.