SC - Re: Making cheese

[ChannonM@aol.com]

Found this on rec.food.historic.   I checked out the link and found it to be
quite interesting.

Luveday

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From: "Opinicus" <gezgin at spamcop.net>
Newsgroups: rec.food.historic
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 4:33 AM
Subject: School of Salerno


> A delightful rhymed discourse on dietary recommendations in
> 16th-century Elizabethan England by Sir John Harington, inventor
> of a (today common) sanitary fixture named after him.
>
> <quote>
> Six things, that here in order shall ensue,
> Against all poisons have a secret power,
> Pear, Garlic, Radish-roots, Nuts, Rape, and Rue,
> But Garlic chief; for they that it devour,
> May drink, and care not who their drink do brew:
> May walk in airs infected every hour.
> Sith Garlic then hath powers to save from death,
> Bear with it though it make unsavory breath:
> And scorn not Garlic, like to some that think
> It only makes men wink, and drink, and stink.
> </quote>
>
> and
>
> <quote>
> If wine have overnight a surfeit brought,
> A thing we wish to you should happen seeld,
> Then early in the morning drink a draught,
> And that a kind of remedy shall yield,
> </quote>
> This may be the first mention of the "hair of the dog" cure in
> medical literature.
>
> There's lots more at
> http://user.icx.net/~richmond/rsr/ajax/harington.html
>
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