My first cold of the season. What did your Mom make for you when you were sick?

Ruth n Jersey

Ruth n Jersey

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I usually don't get many colds but generally I do get one sometime before Thanksgiving. This one is a bit early but if I have to get one, rather now than when we go for our trip to Connecticut in a couple of weeks. This one is quite mild and after two days I'm feeling better. It did make me stop and think about my childhood illnesses. It seems there were quite a few kids out of school with colds during my grammar school years. I couldn't sleep last night so I got up,had a cup of tea and a piece of cinnamon and sugar toast. It brought back memories.My mom always made that for me when I was sick. Also, chicken noodle soup was a given. If my appetite was really off she made me an egg nog, I wasn't to thrilled with that. She just threw the raw egg in the glass of milk with sugar and vanilla extract and beat it all up. Sometimes I guess she didn't beat it long enough and it was slimy and slippery. If I was fortunate she would leave it in my bedroom for me to drink, then I had time to feed it to my dog. Thank goodness he had a long tongue. Mom never caught on. I almost forgot the cod liver oil. For some reason I liked that stuff. Then the vaporizer came out and Vicks was rubbed all over me with a soft clean cloth on top. Also a cough syrup called REM. I have no idea what the letters stood for but that stuff was great! It probably had enough alcohol in it to put a moose to sleep.
 

Campbell's chicken noodle soup and gingerale. It was my grandmothers' go-to (one of them was a nurse), my mother's, mine, and now my dughter's. Didn't even have to be a cold...it treated whatever ailed us as soonas we were up to eating. Mornings were tea and dry toast. If we had colds, at bedtime we got slathered with Vicks Vaporub.
 
For tummy it was ginger ale or tea with milk and sugar and dry toast or crackers. Chicken noodle soup for colds and Vicks.
 

This is what I do for colds-

Boil one diced 'finger' of fresh ginger root in water in a small pan for 15 minutes
Take it off the burner
add lots of raw honey & freshly squeezed lemon juice
strain over tea cup and drink while hot.

or you can do this-

drink one shot of whiskey
if that doesn't work
drink another
if that doesn't work
drink another..
 
QuickSilver said:
Campbell's Tomato soup with lots and lots of saltines.
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Tomato soup and crackers is pretty much all I want when I have the flu. When I'm alone I will just use Campbell's when I'm sick. If my daughter knows I'm sick she will make me a big pot of tomato soup from fresh tomatoes.
 
I was sick more than I was well as a kid. The vaporizer was always in the hall closet waiting for my next cold. I remember the pink penicillin liquid made you feel worse...bleeeeeh. But two things they always brought to me were cinnamon toast dripping in butter and sugar, warm milk with sugar and vanilla, and for coughs honey and lemon juice. Knock on wood, age has been kind. I haven't been sick for a long time. Hope you're feeling better soon Ruth.
 
I just remembered something else...native to the UP of Michigan. Toast. Yup, Toast. It isn't ordinary toast. Thick slices of bread toasted all the way through, flavored with sugar and cinnamon. We buttered it and poured hot milk over it. Good for breakfast in the brutally cold winter mornings up there and always offered when we were recovering from something and didn't really want anything to eat. The kind I remember is called Trenary Toast, made in (of course) Trenary, Michigan, but it's one of those things like Kleenex...it's called Trenary Toast no matter what bakery/supermarket it comes from.

It was a thought that just popped into my head and made me homesick so I looked it up and sure 'nuf, it can be had online. I just ordered four sacks!
 
Sounds like we all had the same mother!

I would have some hot rice with milk, a sprinkle of brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. I also liked this simple eggnog and I still make it when I'm not feeling well.

1 cup milk
1 large egg
1 tbsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. vanilla
grated nutmeg

Whirl in a blender and add a shot of booze if you like. If you are concerned with eating raw eggs you might want to pass on this one.

I put my faith in healthy chickens and the shot of booze!
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Ramen noodles are tasty but can be crazy high sodium. Matzoh ball soup will anything that ails you. Aunt Bea, that sounds almost like a recipe for horchata...one of my favorites:D
 
My mother made me either homemade chicken soup or Campbell's, Lipton tea with honey, Tropicana orange juice and sometimes Canada Dry ginger ale. She used Vicks and Cheracol cough syrup. Cough drops were cherry, either Luden's or Pine Bros. Hope you get over it quickly Ruth.

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For "colds" :Water and juice every time I turned around. Vicks vapo rub and chicken rice soup. Small lunch bags safety-pinned to the side of my mattress for used tissues after nose-blowing. The vaporizer a few times.

For nausea/vomiting: Tea with lemon as lemon settles the stomach. Coke syrup from the drug store, ice chips, Saltines. Dry toast only after she thought I'd stopped. I fooled her a few times, lol.

The radio in my room!
 
Campbell's chicken noodle soup! And lots of Vicks vapo rub on the chest with a warm towel for coughs. Now they say to rub your feet with Vicks and put on socks to ease night time coughs! Grandma would be stunned!
 
It's funny I'm not exaggerating what a sickly kid I was but I didn't mind a bit. TV in my room all day and into the night. My Mom's Siamese would lay with me. That cinnamon toast and...yes life was good.
 
Wow, Fur you were lucky to have a TV in your room! We only had one TV and it was in the "family" room and the adults had full control of what was watched! I was in bed with the smelly vapo rub on my chest! LOL
 
Wow,that Vicks vapo rub sure was popular. I didn't have a TV in my room but didn't care. I was just happy to be home. I hated going to school. I knew I was safe when I could hear the train whistle way off in a distance then I knew It was to late to go to school. Sometimes I would put the tip of the thermometer on the radiator. Not to high,just enough to make it believable. She knew when I was better though. I couldn't stay still. I'd be having to much of a good time in my little room playing.
 
My mom usually made me nothing because she was working, but my Grandma made me fresh chicken and vegetable soup. I was given Vicks Vapo Rub too, and often had a vaporizer because my colds used to settle in my chest.

Now, I take organic ginger tea, or fennel root for a cold. I still enjoy chicken vegetable soup too. Also laughter. Laughing at something can help you to feel better and recover more quickly. :eek:
 

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