Hot stomake? Pissing in drops? Dry skin? Gonnhorrhaea? Smallpox scars? John Gerard has a remedy for that, and it’s cheaper than you might think…
Category: Orchard Tradition
Rembert Dodoens and Henry Lyte, on Apples
Hoate stomacke? Take a sowrish apple for that. But watch out for blastinges in the belly…
Henry Phillips, on Healthy Drinking
It’s the nineteenth century apple juice concoction that’s on everyone’s lips…
Wassail, Wassail, With a Jolly Wassail!
It’s twelfth night – or one of them – which can mean only one thing in the orchard: Wassail!