SC - Marshmallows

[Marilyn Traber]

> If I had to guess, Smith or Ebers, as those are the two most
> popular and the two largest. Probably Ebers, as Smith doesn't
> really have recipes in it. But not having read both in their
> entirety....

iirc smith is the surgical one with the cataract surgery bits.

> Ah, I didn't look in Tacitum Sanitas. I'll have to do that. But it
> seems odd to me that the same process would be used for both the
> edible and the "plaister-wise" product. I've got this picture in
> my head of single-serving balls that a doctor might use or an
> apothecary might store, but somehow I don't make the connection to
> something edible. Where am I stumbling here? Perhaps it's that
> darn Stay-Puff man walking through the city.... :) internally and topically,
> and in candy as well

> Agreed. And I'm certain that at least part of my problem picturing
> the use of the marshmallow sap stems from a 20th-century bias against
> eating something that (1) tastes like complete and utter crap, and
> (2) looks like uncooked dough. Now, plenty of the demulcents that
> were used did use a simple honey base, and Gerard does recommend some
> of these things as part of a regular diet, per se. So it would be
> interesting to trace the whole marshmallow-as-medicine thing from
> that standpoint, I suppose.

when it is mixed with the barley flour it is quite palatable, as i said sort of
flowery flavored with 'green' overtoens.

> >[i used to get a brand of horehound drops with it in that was by
> >a company who put the same ones out with a menthol-eucalyptus medicated
> >>version. the advertising ploy was it was a candy not a med for those
> >who liked the taste of the horehound.
>
> Thayers, perhaps?

white bagh, brown printing of a curier and ives litho?

> *chuckle* It even makes you wonder if the people in the Middle Ages
> didn't think the same thing. "You want me to eat WHAT? No way, that
> stuff tastes like crap!" (Although, I admit to liking my home-made
> horehound cough syrup a damn site better than that Robitussin stuff.)
>
> Jasmine, jasmine at infoengine.com

i make a nice cough syrup from wild cherry bark, slippery elm, honey, brandy and
lemon lift tea bags...
margali

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