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A little guide to auld Scottish grannies' methods of looking after the family in times of illness. Often quirky, frequently unpleasant, the remedies used in times gone by included not consuming water if you were ill and asking a man on a white horse for a recommendation for a whooping cough cure.

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Publié par	Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited
Date de parution	07 mars 2005
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781291310139
Langue	English

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DISCLAIMER!
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Although the remedies in this book were once favoured by grannies, this is essentially a humorous work, not a medical one, and its recommendations should not be followed. Anyone needing medical attention should always consult a doctor.

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MODERN SCOTS GRANNY
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In Scotland today, Granny is still an important, much-loved person in many families. When things go wrong in a Scots child’s life, it is still often a case of Granny to the rescue.

Grannies still give the most comforting cuddles to counteract the many disasters of modern childhood, such as skinned knees, difficult sums, lost pocket money or failure to get the toy-of-the-year for Christmas.

SCOTS GRANNY’S SECRET WEAPON
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Sweeties are still a major part of Scots Granny’s rescue kit. Nowadays they may be shop-bought, but formerly Scots grannies would have kept a hoard of home-made treats, such as tablet (a mouth-watering, if cavity-inducing, delicacy made with condensed milk) or tooth-breaking treacle toffee. Grannies of yesteryear did rely on one shop-bought treat as a remedy for childhood illness: the pan drop, a hard, smooth peppermint sweet intended to be sucked slowly.

A CHANGE OF IMAGE
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Loved as they are, Scots grannies are not what they once were. For a start, they have shed the traditional image of a granny. The little white-haired lady, clad in floor-length, shapeless black and sitting by an open fire stirring a pot or knitting a sock, is no more. Today’s Scots Granny is more likely to be sporting the best modern gear she can afford and have had her hair tinted to a hue of her choice at the local hairdresser. She will have swapped the pot on the open fire for a microwave oven and may well have given up sock-knitting in favour of paid employment. But there has been a price to pay for all this progress and that price is a loss of power. True, Scots Granny has retained some of this. She was, after all, the person who told her grandchildren’s parents what to do – and possibly still does – and that makes her grandchildren view her with awe as well as love. Modern Scots Granny, however, simply does not play the pivotal family role that her predecessors did.

Learn young, learn fair, learn old, learn more.
Scottish proverb

SCOTS GRANNY OF YESTERYEAR
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Scots grannies of previous generations played many roles. They often performed many of the household tasks, without any labour-saving devices, especially when the younger women were pregnant or looking after young children. Most importantly, they were the guardians, and often executors, of the family traditional remedies.

These were times when medical help might be far away and unaffordable. Thus Granny was often doctor and nurse as well as head cook and bottle-washer. In order to perform her medical role, auld Scots Granny, like grannies of the time all over the world, relied heavily on everyday things around her. In her case, however – for don’t forget she was a Celt – these were often interspersed with a good deal of superstition and regard for the supernatural.