"Sacha" wrote in message
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Snip

ISTR that my grandmother
believed in putting sugar on a cut onion and eating it to get rid of a
cold. I hope I'm imagiining that!


You're not! My grandmother used to make cough mixture by slicing an onion
onto a plate, sprinkling it with a good coating of sugar and leaving it over
night. In the morning she used to run off the liquid and bottle it, keeping
the bottle in the fridge until needed. Very effective and surprisingly
tasty.

--
Kathy