- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del; 1 edition (Dec 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0767901487
- ISBN-13: 978-0767901482
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,714,862 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Honking and wheezing? Plumbing all messed up? Change of seasons got you down? Need a little pick-me-up?
Pat Willard has just the ticket to get you back on track. While poring over weathered, vintage cookbooks, Pat found a treasure trove of recipes from the days when ailing family members were cared for at home, and everyday aches, pains, and complaints were dealt with by turning to the kitchen pantry. With a style reminiscent of M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin, and a tone as soothing as Pat's suggestions, A Soothing Broth includes recipes for homemade broths, tonics, juices, puddings, and teas.
If a sore throat has you croaking like a frog, relieve the pain with a vinegar and cayenne pepper beverage. If you've overdone it at the gym, soak those aching muscles in a warm bath with some ginger and vinegar. A paste of wheat germ and honey will relieve the itching and take down the swelling of that nasty bee sting.
You've got a cupboard full of cures in your kitchen, and A Soothing Broth shows you how to use them.
Pat Willard has just the ticket to get you back on track. While poring over weathered, vintage cookbooks, Pat found a treasure trove of recipes from the days when ailing family members were cared for at home, and everyday aches, pains, and complaints were dealt with by turning to the kitchen pantry. With a style reminiscent of M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin, and a tone as soothing as Pat's suggestions, A Soothing Broth includes recipes for homemade broths, tonics, juices, puddings, and teas.
If a sore throat has you croaking like a frog, relieve the pain with a vinegar and cayenne pepper beverage. If you've overdone it at the gym, soak those aching muscles in a warm bath with some ginger and vinegar. A paste of wheat germ and honey will relieve the itching and take down the swelling of that nasty bee sting.
You've got a cupboard full of cures in your kitchen, and A Soothing Broth shows you how to use them.
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Learn how to take care of sick folks with humor & good food.
Did you ever have to take care of someone who was sick and feel at a complete loss about how and what to feed them? Now that hospitals are kicking patients out faster than you can pay the bill, it's being left up to family and friends to figure out how to make a loved one feel better. Long before managed care--even long before hospitals--there was a branch of cooking known as "Invalid Cooking," comprised of recipes to feed the sick and help them recover. These recipes, which appeared in almost every cookbook straight up to the early years of the 20th century, were often delicious and sensible, nourishing and theraputic. Wonderful wine jellies (a sophisticated form of Jello), custards and main dishes such as shrimp sauteed with black pepper (a winter tonic), along with restorative rubs and potions, were all common household remedies used to see loved ones through to health. I first came across these recipes when I was helping to take care of my husband's mother in her last bout with cancer. As serious as her condition was--and frightening in its extremes--these recipes helped her to feel more comfortable and, by extension, gave our family a sense that we were being useful by providing her with a measure of much needed comfort. In lesser needs, I have used these recipes for everything from getting my children through colds and flues, to coaxing a friend through the last dregs of stomach flu. You'll even find dandelion wine to set the body up for spring and a winter restorative when it has been snowing for too long. Interspersed with the recipes are stories and essays, nursing lore and just plain encouragement, to help us regain the long lost knowledged of taking care of our family and friends.
Did you ever have to take care of someone who was sick and feel at a complete loss about how and what to feed them? Now that hospitals are kicking patients out faster than you can pay the bill, it's being left up to family and friends to figure out how to make a loved one feel better. Long before managed care--even long before hospitals--there was a branch of cooking known as "Invalid Cooking," comprised of recipes to feed the sick and help them recover. These recipes, which appeared in almost every cookbook straight up to the early years of the 20th century, were often delicious and sensible, nourishing and theraputic. Wonderful wine jellies (a sophisticated form of Jello), custards and main dishes such as shrimp sauteed with black pepper (a winter tonic), along with restorative rubs and potions, were all common household remedies used to see loved ones through to health. I first came across these recipes when I was helping to take care of my husband's mother in her last bout with cancer. As serious as her condition was--and frightening in its extremes--these recipes helped her to feel more comfortable and, by extension, gave our family a sense that we were being useful by providing her with a measure of much needed comfort. In lesser needs, I have used these recipes for everything from getting my children through colds and flues, to coaxing a friend through the last dregs of stomach flu. You'll even find dandelion wine to set the body up for spring and a winter restorative when it has been snowing for too long. Interspersed with the recipes are stories and essays, nursing lore and just plain encouragement, to help us regain the long lost knowledged of taking care of our family and friends.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Most pleasant to read, beautiful writing, witty, poignant,
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This review is from: A Soothing Broth: Soups, Tonics, and Other Cure-alls for Colds, Coughs, Upset Tummies, and Out-of-sorts Days (Hardcover)
Pat Willard brews together family and tradition like few writers today. Just reading her stories is a tonic. In fact I tried some of the recipes and they worked. However, I may have had a heavy hand in the liquor section a bit. A good read. This is the second Pat Willard book I enjoyed, and look forward to the next. Also, I heard the interview on NPR, and Pat sounds like an enjoyable person. I'll pass on the vinegar and cayenne, though.
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book happens to contain a lot of intriguing history.,
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This review is from: A Soothing Broth: Soups, Tonics, and Other Cure-alls for Colds, Coughs, Upset Tummies, and Out-of-sorts Days (Hardcover)
My wife the cook swears by this book, and though I'm not competent myself to answer questions about cooking, being all thumbs, I do teach history, and I find this book fascinating on historical grounds. Its account of the history of nursing, interwoven with recipes, is judicious, lively, insightful, and an excellent read.
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Comfort & Joy,
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This review is from: A Soothing Broth: Soups, Tonics, and Other Cure-alls for Colds, Coughs, Upset Tummies, and Out-of-sorts Days (Hardcover)
"A Soothing Broth" is exactly that!! Pat Willard's gem of a book is thoroughly researched & splendidly written. Wrought with witticisms & wise cracks, Willard's tone brings as much comfort as the numerous concoctions she describes & it is a joy to have so much healing humor added to the mix as in the eel vs. vipers debate & the pig Miss Glover knew personally. The historical recipes are utterly compelling & crammed with great stuff including the truly useful & the just plain fascinating like the cure for nymphomania! (Ah, the good ol' days when cocaine & marijuana weren't yet controlled substances...) The wonderful introductions to each section are mini memoirs with an array of colorful characters & their various approaches to attaining and/or maintaining good health like Willard's maternal grandmother's seaweed soup & Miss Glover's kidney-cleansing dandelions. Structured around a firm foundation of an amazing & practical collection of tonics, treatments & cures, "A Soothing Broth" is imbued with the spirit of Florence Nightingale whose important contributions to the health-care field continue to influence modern-day medicine. This book is a real pleasure to peruse with its impressively wide range of info for whatever ails you.
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