School: Móta Ghráinne Óige
- Location:
- Woodlawn, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlís Ní Innse
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- (continued from previous page)To Cure a Cold(i) Make "scailtín" as follows. Put some buttermilk to boil and a handful of oaten meal & let both boil together until the grains of meal are cooked. Then take up & put butter & sugar in it & take it hot.(ii) Put some milk to boil & put a peeled onion into it & let both boil for a time. Remove the onion & drink the milk.(iii) Make hot carrageen drink as follows. Put a pint of milk to boil. Wash as much dry carrageen as would fit in an egg-stand & put it into the milk with tow teaspoons of sugar. Let all simmer for ten minutes. Strain away carrageen & use the hot drink for coughs & colds.(If wished this can be let set into a blancmange & used as a sweet. This is the only way the old people made up carrageen in this district)To Cure Nettle stingGet a dock leaf & beat with a stick or stone to bring out the juice & lay it on the sting. The juice immediately cools the burning sting.Another Cure for WartsCollect some dandelion flowers press the milky fluid out of the stem & put it on the wart. This should be done frequently until the warts disappear.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Innse
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir