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A charming collection of traditional remedies and folk medicines which have been prepared from Shakespeare's time to the present. First published in 1961, A Cordiall Water collects a charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers and intersperces them with autobiographical anecdotes from M. F. K. Fisher's life in California, Provence, Mexico, and Switzerland. These engaging recipes, a perfect combination of superstition, instinct, and primitive knowledge deal with commonp…
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- Author: M F K Fisher
- Publisher: Catapult
- Year: 2004
- Pages: 160
- ISBN-10: 1593760299
- ISBN-13: 9781593760298
- Format: 14.6 x 19.5 x 1.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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A charming collection of traditional remedies and folk medicines which have been prepared from Shakespeare's time to the present. First published in 1961, A Cordiall Water collects a charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers and intersperces them with autobiographical anecdotes from M. F. K. Fisher's life in California, Provence, Mexico, and Switzerland. These engaging recipes, a perfect combination of superstition, instinct, and primitive knowledge deal with commonplace ailments--sore throats, cures for cats, aging skin, fevers, PMS and hangovers. Ingredients of these extraordinary receipts are transformed into cures and preventatives told in the inimitable style of this master of the finely observed life.
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- Author: M F K Fisher
- Publisher: Catapult
- Year: 2004
- Pages: 160
- ISBN-10: 1593760299
- ISBN-13: 9781593760298
- Format: 14.6 x 19.5 x 1.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
A charming collection of traditional remedies and folk medicines which have been prepared from Shakespeare's time to the present. First published in 1961, A Cordiall Water collects a charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers and intersperces them with autobiographical anecdotes from M. F. K. Fisher's life in California, Provence, Mexico, and Switzerland. These engaging recipes, a perfect combination of superstition, instinct, and primitive knowledge deal with commonplace ailments--sore throats, cures for cats, aging skin, fevers, PMS and hangovers. Ingredients of these extraordinary receipts are transformed into cures and preventatives told in the inimitable style of this master of the finely observed life.
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