Sugar, Garlic, Ginger: A Cold Remedy You Shouldn't Like - Tejal Rao - Food - The Atlantic
Totally agree with it. Honestly I think the big active ingredient is the garlic. You can get around drinking it by cutting a clove into quarters the long way (making pill shaped torpedos) and swallowing them whole. Put them skin side down on your tongue, not cut side or you'll not be happy. And the raw bit is important, which may mean this gal's tea probably doesn't benefit from the garlic added and you're just left with the stinky sulfur compounds and not the kick ass, ass kicking allicin. But hey maybe it still works, what do I know, i'm just a bike racer.
Friday, October 15, 2010
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1 oz bourbon
1 oz boiling watter
1/4 teaspoon sugar
1 dash bitters
1 cinnamon stick
Repeat until you forget you have a cold.
My Mom used to give me:
Jim Beam
water
honey
in whatever ratio I would tolerate as long as Beam was number one. I guess the point was to get me to pass out so that she could cover me in as many blankets as possible so I'd "sweat" it out.
It always worked. We'd be able to go on our 2-week X-mas vacations sickness free.
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