Food Remedies - Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses

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carried by it. It should not be gathered from streams running through
meadows inhabited by sheep.


_Chestnut._

Chestnuts, when cooked, are valuable food for persons with weak
digestive powers. They should be put on the fire in a saucepan of cold
water and cooked for twenty minutes from the time the water first boils.
John Evelyn, F.R.S., a seventeenth century writer, says of them: "They
are a lusty and masculine food for rustics at all times, and of better
nourishment for husbandmen than cole and rusty bacon, yea, or beans to
boot."


_Cinnamon._