Meals Medicinal

Curative foods from the cook in place of drugs from the chemist — Dr. Fernie's 1905 A-to-Z of what to eat for what ails you.

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Hudibras

A couple of hundred years ago it was a question of ecclesiastical debate whether clergymen ought to eat Mince-pies, because of their Popish origin; they were baked in a coffin-shaped crust to represent the manger in which the infant Christ was laid.

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