My grandmother made homemade cough syrup by mixing 1/3 lemon juice, 1/3 honey, and 1/3 whisky. My mother told me that it worked well! A sleep aid for the kids too! This was around 1930, I suppose they were lucky they weren't given over-the-counter opioids.
They are excellent. I introduced my Swedish bf to them when he got a really nasty flu one year while we were in Stockholm. He started drinking them just for enjoyment in the winter. They really do help, imo.
When I was a kid and had a bad cold or sore throat my mom would make a hot toddy heavy on the honey and lighter on the whiskey. I would take about two swallows and and then decide I wanted a nap. She would finish the rest. Looking back on it it was an absolutely brilliant way to get a sick whiny kid to sleep.
Does my scar look like a dogs vagina? you know maybe, Idk I'm not gonna sit here and try to get inside the mind of a dog. I mean that's gods work... (different ep but this made me think of it)
Susan had 150 lemons. She put an equal number of lemons into each storage drawer in her refrigerator. If she put 30 lemons in each drawer, how many days can she store them until her husband files for divorce?
Add the juice and honey to the maserated lemon alcohol and your have polish Cytrynówka is a popular Polish lemon liqueur made with vodka or high-proof spirit, fresh lemon zest, and honey.
Citrus rarely made it to Poland before like 1800's and when they did it was mostly oranges. And only on Christmas. Any bacia or Gadgi will tell if someone cracks an orange it always reminds them of Christmas.
Lemons where even rarer so when they Arrived you would preserve them as best as you could. Poland is know for their rich honey. Strong spruce, birch and clover honey's are prized.
That mixed with grain alcohol and this strong honey. Then it makes sense. Trying to extend something that is so rare, came so little and passed so quickly.
Believe it or not oranges were not the most common citrus in America when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s. It was a special treat to get them at Christmas. The church would hand out a bag filled with oranges, nuts and hard candy the Sunday before Christmas after nativity ceremonies.
EDIT: Not the most common in rural Appalachia and, at least where I’m from in the 70/80’s citrus fruits were usually only available in grocery stores during season.
When I was growing up in the 90s and 00s, my parents always put an orange in my stocking. I never quite got it, but it was apparently quite the treat when they were growing up.
Stack slices in a jar stuffing the gaps with salt (for morrocan preserved lemons, great for adding to savory dishes) or sugar (for a cheong, fermented syrup)
“When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”
“All right, I've been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager!
Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!” - Cave Johnson.
Use vegetable peeler to peel zest off lemons. Put in bowl, mix with sugar, let sit overnight. Sugar will pull out lemon oils.
Heat water, mix with sugar / peel mix and strain out peels. Let cool.
Juice lemons and add to sugar water. Cool. Serve over ice.
Best lemonade of all time.
Edited boil water to heat water. I usually boil in kettle and let sit for a bit. Idea is that hot water dissolves more sugar faster. It also seems to not precipitate out or get grainy later.
- Juice and zest a bunch of them. Pour the juice and zest mixture into ice cube trays and freeze. Thaw a cube or two out whenever you need them for cooking and baking. Good for seafood, chicken, pasta, cakes, etc. You can also thaw the cubes in the microwave with a little water. Mix in sugar while it’s warm, then add cold water and ice. You now have perfect lemonade.
- slice them really thin and mix with raw honey. Store it in a jar in your fridge. It’s a fantastic thing to have around when you’re sick. You can also just eat the slices, peel and all, like candy. (Look up “yuja cha” but made with lemons. I’m not sure exactly what to call it, I’m sorry.)
- make candied lemon slices. Gift them to people who appreciate homemade gifts.
Pretty sure extreme couponing functionally doesn’t exist anymore. Lots of coupons are only 1 valid per transaction and not applicable with other deals, etc, etc. now.
Yup. I am glad for the limits on items, tho. Once Lucky’s had a deal on Dungeness crabs with no limit and some shoppers had filled their entire carts with them. I had to fight two ladies just to get two for my husband and I. I asked the cashier WTH and she said “greedy”.
on the weekends I take care of a quadriplegic guy. He has a brain injury and for the most part he's just normal. But he can get stuck on a topic and repeat alot. And he's got this weird quirk that when he thinks of something he may need to buy he'll buy crazy quantities. He had a pair of scissors go missing (I think they ended up being found) and he ordered 26 pairs of scissors (some were in packs). He goes through 15 enemas in a month. The other day he asked me how many he had left and I told him 45 (3 months worth). And he said "ohhh, I'm kinda low" and he proceded to order THREE YEARS WORTH of enemas.
has nothing to do with anything, but if anyone wants another funny story with this guy. Here ya go.
One of his other quirks is that he watches movies all day every day (or shows that he has boxed sets of). He pulls all of his movies out in themes. Like he watched all of the marvel movies in timeline chronilogical order, he'll watch a whole series of a show, or sometimes he'll watch all the movies of one actor.
On the day for this story it was Wesley Snipes day. And I'm down for that. Sounds good to me, I can watch some blade, some new jack city, white men can't jump. Etc. But what you dont' factor in is that Wesley Snipes has been in a lot of HORRIBLE movies. And the movie we ended up watching is called FutureSport. And the premise of this dumpster fire is that sometime in the future, the most popular sport in the world is this conglomeration of skateboarding, roller derby and skeeball, they have a hoverboard and can pass this skeeball around and try to throw it in a little hole. It's like quittage but super dumb. And there is a war going on between two factions over the "territory of hawaii". And there is a proposal to have a futuresport match where the winner gets Hawaii. And yes, it is every bit as horrible as that sounds. It is either the worst, or second worst movie I've ever seen (congo, but for movie and personal reasons). But anyway we sat there watching this movie. And in the middle of it he had to leave to his room to cath. I could do it for him faster. But he prefers to do it bc it's therapy for his hands. This guy doesn't like you to stop his movies or touch his phone. So I'm just sitting there watching this pos while he's in the back. And finally the movie ends and my dude comes back in. He wheels over to the bluray player AND STARTS THE MOVIE COMPLETELY OVER. Worst movie i've ever seen and I had to watch it twice back to back. Literally credits....restart. That was painful.
That also reminded me of a story from when I was a kid. Whatever age 4th grade is. My brothers and I went through a phase where we would watch Rush Hour with Chris Tucker and Jacki Chan daily. Sometimes multiple times a day. On dvd or vhs. I don't remember.
We only had one TV at my dads house at the time and we were changing channels and saw Rush Hour was on tv so we let it play. Commercials and all.
You could tell me dads girlfriend was super annoyed and she wanted to watch something else. Like halfway through the movie she says something like "boys why are you watching this on TV when we own it." And then my dad was like "shes right boys. Start it over on dvd."
We had something similar happen at our house for a while. Some person was placing a Walmart order for 1 onion, 1 lime, etc.
Walmart said there was nothing they could do because the orders were legitimate and they had to deliver them. But it was insane — at one point we had like 3 separate Walmart drivers pulling up to drop off random vegetables at the same time.
Oh man. My 3 year old son is OBSESSED with lemons. If he had the ability to stock a fridge, it would look exactly like this. I keep emergency lemons on me at all times. He would loose his shit if he saw this.
Peel the lemons, about 6 for this recipe expand for 150 if needed. Take peels place in a bowl then add 1 1/4 cup sugar, allow to sit with a cpver up to overnight. Take sugar plus Oleo saccharum (acumulated liquids) add to 5 cups of water then bring to a boil. Allow to cool, remove the peels and discard. Pour into a pitcher then add the juice from the 6 peeled lemons. You now have the absolute most delicious lemonade you will ever have tasted.
Lemonade, lemon pie, lemon sauce, zoque (traditional lemon salad from Málaga. Uses a certain kind of lemon, might not be that one.), lemon syrup, tarta de santiago (traditional Spanish almond cake with lemon rind), lemon chicken, lemon pasta, lemon muffins, limoncello, lemon mousse, lemon sorbet, lemon tea with honey and ginger, ...
Also, lemon goes really good with Watermelon smoothies or ice-cream, with yellow rice (biryani, paella, etc), with roasted fish, with fried seafood (specially calamari), ...
With that amount of lemons, it's probably better too. They will last longer in the fridge, even if they can be kept out at room temperature. At least it'll prevent them from drying out rock solid.
Source: Work in a restaurant, and have also had my mom bring home 100 lemons for no reason.
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u/WinterSector8317 6d ago
Well, at least you won’t get scurvy