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Originally Posted by sm_counsell
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')
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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.