Beach in a bowl
a great friend of mine tapes a cut clove to his left big-toe at bedtime to heal a cold. My husband fashions a hot drink of crushed garlic, ginger, lemon and honey that tastes revolting but may be of some use.
Ginger has pretty much the same properties but is warming and pleasant, certainly easier to take as a tea.
I look for spray-free garlic where possible, as a body already taxed with colds shouldn’t have to process nasty chemicals as well. Team this with coriander to purify the blood and my recipe has taken
This recipe tastes amazingly like a week at the beach.
on a decidedly exotic feel.
The old plague remedy of an onion-half in each room to cleanse the air is harmless enough if you are as desperate as we are, but to make things more palatable I have added onion into my remedy recipe.
By contrast, the newest fad of healthy fats shines a light on coconut oil as also being antimicrobial and nourishing so I have added this in. Chillies are there to raise body temperature a little as this is the body’s simplest natural defence against bugs.
With my husband’s insistence that vitamin C can’t survive high temperatures, I stir in lemon juice at the end and serve more at the table.
This recipe is quick to prepare and tastes amazingly like a week at the beach. As my newest wives’ tale recipe, I am pleased to report it miraculously broke our sickness streak . . . for a few days at least.