Grannies Remedies

By Mai Thomas

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517009838
• ISBN13: 9780517009833
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Ancient Secrets of a Welsh Grandmother

Excellent book -It actually formed my love of ethnobotany as a subject, and collecting rare and unusual ingredients when I first read this at 5.I remember well the formulas and recipes using things like gum tragacanth, gum elemi, and other exotic sounding medicinals and hard-to-find ingredients like isinglass ( wine making suppliers carry it!).Equally fascinating are the recipes for foods taken to recoup from illnesses- the blancmange with Irish moss, the custard, the vanilla scented things wafting through my room as I experimented making the things is as delightful a memory as Mai Thomas' recollections of her grandmother's apothecary cupboard and the things therein.For a good, memorable addition to ones non-fiction library in areas from botany to Wicca, and herbal remedies, this book is a treasure overlooked for years. at 1 cent US, its a steal in a hardcover edition. Reading it will take a couple of hours and the knowledge, valuableGum Tragacanth - 2.7 oz it is, will last a lifetime.