SC - Re: cane honey

[Phyllis Spurr]

> Date sent:      Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:05:21 -0500
> From:           L Herr-Gelatt and J R Gelatt <liontamr at ptd.net>
> 
<snip>
> BTW it was used primarily in period by apothecaries, who used it to sweeten
> medecinal mixtures. When it was 'discovered' by the masses, they had to buy
> it from the apothecaries. To this day some consider a spoonful of molasses
> or treacle to be medicinal!
> 
> Aoife---brain packed with all sorts of useless trivia.
> 

Just as a note, I grew up in Kentucky/Indiana area, and our 
grandmother insisted we were to take "spoonful" of molasses in the 
fall and spring to insure our good health.  It couldn't be any 'ol 
molasses, it had to be specifically blackstrap molasses.  I can still 
taste that stuff!

 



Phyllis L. Spurr
HL Eowyn ferch Rhys
Barony of Elfsea,
Ansteorra
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