Old cold cure: brown suagr, sliced onion

[puzzleking123]

When i was a young boy, an old lady gave my Mum a recipy to keep colds away. It consisted of alternate layers of brown sugar and sliced onion in a pudding bowl covered with a damp cloth. After a few days a liquid would form and my sister and i used to be given a spoonful to keep colds at bay. Has anybody else heard of this?

[Martin02]

Hello puzzleking I really love about hearing of all these ways to avoid sickness and ways to get better used by our mothers and grandmothers some old wives tales and some today backed by science i can remember as a youngster reading about a way to get rid of warts which included something like taking a knotted hanky or a toad you'd wiped your warts on to a crossroads on a full moon and leaving there and then your warts would start to go as the moon faded or something. All fascinating stuff.

[Bromsgrove]

I haven't heard of that cure ,but when my mother had a cold, she would soften some onion in butter, add milk, bring to the boil and eat, together with a little crumbled bread in it. She certainly cleared colds pretty quickly!

[pastafreak]

My Italian mum did that....but with white sugar. I used to love it.