When I was a kid in the 1930's my father made elderberry wine. Also dandelion wine. If we could a cold, he would heat a small glass of wine, we would drink it, put some Vicks on our chest, get under the covers and sweat it out, I guess it works, I never been to a Doctor until I joined the Military. Maybe it was the witching hour that chased the cold away!!! Joe in sunny arizona Maricopa Co, not that damp weather in Cochise Country???? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sheila Kline" <sheilakline47@yahoo.com> To: <PaDutch-Life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 2:01 PM Subject: [PD-LIFE] ELDERBERRY WINE & "WHITE LIGHTNING" > Connie...the elderberry wine that was supposedly used for medicinal > purposes in your house, must be like the "white lightning" here in WV that > is supposed to keep the "meanace" out of ya! I wonder how many stills are > out there hidden in these mountains to this day? There sure is a lot of > wild territory here, so wild that it would be hard for the feds to find, > unless they had a blood hound like the one in "Oh, Brother Where Art > Thou". > I think that the mountain folks have developed a special techinque for > hiding them. It's called "Anthing to keep the Feds Away" found in their > White Lightning" Survival Kit....kept by the jug and the corn cob pipe. > > Sheila > in the hills of WV > > > --------------------------------- > Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user > panel and lay it on us. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Mom use to let me have a half glass of Porter, with my dinnner_said it was a blood builder! I loved that stuff, though. Probably the wine built up the blood. Or maybe it WAS the "witching hour" as you said :o) LOL!!!!! Lynn Joe wrote: Maybe it was the witching hour that chased the cold away!!!