Folklore Cough Remedy #3 – Sweating a Swede with Sugar

First came the lemon. Then came the onion. And now comes the swede. And I am still coughing up a lung. So apologies to everyone who sent their dilemmas into the Household Folklore Agony Aunt, I’ve just been a tad too under the weather to respond. Yet.

Now (IMHO) swedes, at the best of times, are only good for Jack o’lanterns and as part of a Mash o’Nine Sorts. I think it has something to do with the o’. But I still had a tiny glimmer of hope that it would be improved by sugar. I’m giving you one guess as to whether it was.

So what have I learnt from my kitchen folklore three remedy odyssey? Well, in the immortal words of Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, ‘Never give up. Never surrender!’ And despite the grim puckering and the acid reflux, I shall be back in due course to continue my quest to cure all my problems with a vegetable…

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