Feed a cold...starve a fever....

[EcclesCake]

I woke up today with a stinking cold, already on second box of tissues...

I am starving but haven't been shopping and really can't be bothered getting off the sofa.

Please, feed me......

[albaqwerty]

aww eccles :-(

Scrambled eggs on toast with mushrooms, washed down with a hot rum toddy.

[Mamyalynne]

On my way with beef tea and pobs.

[erin-x]

I've just had a babybel and a packet of monster munch.. That's about as good as I can do atm. Can't be bothered either!!

[EcclesCake]

I have a good stock of lemons, a toddy or two is about the only thing I can run to.

What's a pob mamya?

[dotty.]

I've been to the c0-op again and bought a pack of Real Lancashire Eccles Cakes, wonder what unreal ones are? Only bought them because they had no Chorley Cakes mind.

[dotty.]

http://www.butcherbak.../10/09/chorley-cakes/

[craft1948]

I used to hate pobs..............

[dotty.]

is that what we used to call sops?

[flump1]

got slow cooked brisket with trimmings on their way to you E.C. xx

[craft1948]

Don't know dotty.................it's bread in hot milk with sugar.

[humbersloop]

toddys all the way eccles

[dotty.]

oh sops was just bread and milk

[EcclesCake]

Hot milk???? No, never, absolutely not.

Mmmm, brisket....I do have horseradish in the fridge.....

[fredkins]

A traditional roast chicken dinner with all the trimmings and Yorkie puds on it's way.

[vodkancoke]

Beef wellington with roasties being sent to you right now lol

Get better soon Eccles x

[jno]

it means "if you feed a cold you will starve a fever" - ie get something to eat and this will stop it turning it into a fever. Better be quick, though

[EcclesCake]

I love the smell of roasting chicken....

VnC, is the beef rare?

[dotty.]

the idea being that if you build up your energy and eat well you will stave off a cold getting worse and becoming bronchitis or pneumonia

[EcclesCake]

The fridge might be bare beyond lemons and tonic but I think my in built reserves will be sufficient to keep the fever at bay.

I am ravenous, I can't believe the fridge is so empty and the freezer so full of errr....frozen things.....

[Kiki-frog]

Chicken soup with freshly baked bread is just the stuff for stinking colds. Then just before bedtime a hot toddy of whisky, fresh lemon, honey and a little fresh ginger.