Re: Subject: OT-CHAT: rootbeer
Your story reminds me of the wonderful summer I spent with my grandparents in southern Illinois. My grandmother was up at 5:30 every morning preparing a huge breakfast. My favorites were hot biscuits with gooseberry jam and sassafras tea. I used to be able to buy sassafras bark in health food stores, but no more. If everything they say causes cancer really did, I don't thing any of us would be here now.
Francelle Edwards afternoons in the mid 70's, nights in the mid 40's. Don't come to Arizona you snowbound people. Since our winters are so pleasant, imagine what out summers are!
----- Original Message -----
From: William C. Smoot
To: iris-talk@egroups.com
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 9:21 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] Subject: OT-CHAT: rootbeer
Linda Mann wrote:
>We used to make sassafras tea - boil the roots or bark in >water. Lovely
fragrance as it cooks.
I can remember back to when I'd go to my Grandmother's house and drink
tons of Sassafras Tea. We used to love to go into the woods and find it.
AND as Linda pointed out - that smell that filled the whole house as you
boiled the roots for tea! I'm sure that some of the other old timers may
remember when we used to have rootbeer stands... and you got rootbeer in a
frosty mug delivered curbside on a tray that fit on your window!
One of the reasons that those old rootbeer stands closed was that they
found out that natural sassafras was highly carcinogenic!!! By the time
they found a way to synthenicize the flavor - that time had passed.....
Makes me wonder if this had any affect on me coming down with a rare
form of cancer in men.......
BillSmoot - in Portsmouth, VA where we're looking for a warm-up into the 50s
this weekend!
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