School: St Brigid's, Castleknock
- Location:
- Castleknock, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Mrs Thornton
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- (continued from previous page)It with the cream of the milk and use it as a ointment on affected parts.For a cough:
Boil down a cupful of flaxseed and a whole lemon sliced and two table spoonfuls of brown sugar boiled for twenty minutes then strain it and take a tablespoonful every four hours.For a pain in the back:
Get enough red flannel to go around the waist, put in pockets, fill them with mustard and sew them up and keep it around the waist with a safety pin.For a cold:
Slice a white turnip raw and put it on a plate and put a tablespoonful of white sugar over it. Cover it up with another plate and leave it there until the juice comes from it and drink a tablespoonful of it every three hours.Riddles:
Black and white and red all over?
A newspaper- Collector
- Rosaleen Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Address
- Knockmaroon Hill, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mrs Hughes
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockmaroon Hill, Co. Dublin