I remember having a large spoonful of cod liver oil and malt every morning - because I was too skinny! (Oh those were the days!) But earlier on in this thread, someone mentioned rosehip syrup. In the early fifties, every autumn all the school children used to go out after school to search for rose hips in the hedgerows. We brought them in to school in the morning where they were weighed. We were then paid - I think 1d (a penny) for every pound. This was in Galloway but I imagine it happened elsewhere in Scotland too. I wonder who then made those rosehips into syrup? Jose Sent from my iPad > On 30 Nov 2015, at 00:09, Maisie Egger via <lanark@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Jean and Ella, I forgot all about the soup spoon of malt every night before > we went to bed. I don't remember any cod liver oil taste to it or the > emulsion either. > > I found this on Google: > > Malt extract: > > Malt extract, also known as extract of malt, is a sweet, treacly substance > used as a dietary supplement. It was popular in the first half of the > twentieth century as a nutritional enhancer for the children of the British > urban working class, whose diet was often deficient in vitamins and > minerals. Children were given cod liver oil for the same reason but it > proved so unpalatable that it was combined with extract of malt to produce > "Malt and Cod-Liver Oil." Malt extract was given as a "strengthening > medicine" by Kanga to Roo in The House at Pooh Corner, and was also Tigger's > favorite food in the book. > > The reference to it as 'nutritional enhancer for the British urban working > class...." annoys me intensely as it was 'generic,' shall we say, and not > just the children of the working class benefited from it. Reference A. E. > Milne, Cambridge educated, hardly one who would have mixed with the urban > working class, it seems. > > Incidentally, A. E. Milne's father was Scottish who ran a small public (aka > private) school in London. > > Ella your taste buds are mis-wired if you could guzzle cod liver oil > straight out of the bottle! There again, some people love Marmite, or > Vegemite as it's known elsewhere. > > For the genealogy purists, the submissions re cod liver oil, etc., throw a > light into what was deemed healthful living not so long ago. No doubt > popping vitamins has taken the place of cod liver oil, Scott's emulsion, > malt, and even Marmite. > > Maisie > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ella K. Ross via > Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 2:22 PM > To: Jean Bradley ; lanark@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [Lanark] Cod liver oil > > > Hi All > I was brought up in Glasgow during WW11. As I recall cod liver oil and > concentrated orange juice were supplied free to children. > > I like Cod Liver Oil. > > I used to gurgle it straight out of the bottle. That was no problem since no > one else in the family would touch the stuff. I wonder if it did me any > good. Would my arthritis be worse if I hadn't had it? > > Ella Ross > In sunny Sydney > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. > > You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on the following link to the list information page online: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message