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Old 25-07-2009, 10:31   #24
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Re: What food did your Mum make you eat when you had nowt else!!

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Originally Posted by sm_counsell View Post
In winter before we went out of the house to go to school, my mum had two deep dishes. In one was a kind of treacle and in the other a yellowy-green powder.
My brother called it 'Brimstone and Treacle'. and she forced us to eat it.
It was awful but I must say that we never suffered from colds or flu (not even now that we are 'ancient')
hiya Sue
The same in our house but my dad used to make us have it and we never suffered colds or flu and still dont .
It must have been an old ossy recepie that was passed around or a miners cause he worked down the pit uuuuuuuuuh wasnt it horrible but not done us any harm.
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