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    Romany Remedies and Recipes
    Romany Remedies and Recipes
    Romany Remedies and Recipes
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    Romany Remedies and Recipes

    By Gypsy Petulengro

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    A collection of Romany remedies and ointments handed down through the generations.

    Xavier Petulengro, a British Romanichal horse trader, recorded his family’s herbal healing remedies under the pseudonym Gypsy Petulengro. Featuring remedies for sickness, ointments for animals, and advice on fishing and poaching, this volume contains traditional Romany family secrets.

    The chapters featured in this volume include:

      - Remedies, Embrocations, and Liniments
      - Recipes; For the Kiddies
      - Dog Hints
      - Fishing, Poaching, and other Tricks and Recipes
      - Fakes
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMar 29, 2011
    ISBN9781446548905
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      Romany Remedies and Recipes - Gypsy Petulengro

      ROMANY REMEDIES AND RECIPES

      ROMANY REMEDIES AND RECIPES

      by

      GIPSY PETULENGRO

      SECOND EDITION

      METHUEN & CO. LTD. LONDON

      36 Essex Street W.C.2

      PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

      PREFACE

      MY grandfather was the old gipsy tinker Petulengro immortalized by George Borrow in The Romany Rye and Lavengro. My father, who was his seventh son, was a ‘grye-koper’ (horse-dealer) and traded Welsh and Exmoor ponies with the Hungarian and Rumanian Zingari. It was while in Rumania that he met my mother, who came from the stock of Rumanian Zingari, and it was from my mother that I acquired my knowledge of herbs and remedies, which had been handed down by her ancestors for centuries. Many Romanys have forgotten the formulas, or have neglected their uses, but I have always held on to them, possibly because I had the good fortune to be taught to read and write, while most of my relations and friends are still unable to do so. I would like to record that what little education I had was mostly due to a well-known British admiral, Admiral Sir A. K. Wilson, V.C., and to his sister, who took a great interest in me when my parents were travelling in the district in which he lived when ashore. In return for teaching him Romany words he paid an old country lady to teach me, and I received my first lessons in her humble little cottage.

      You must excuse me if my grammar is not all that it should be. I have done my best to make the remedies clear, and as most of them are simple to make, and the ingredients easy to procure, I hope there will be no difficulty in making up any of the recipes. There are many useful herbs and leaves which are often grown, and always can be grown, in one’s own garden, though many folks are not aware of their value. I mention them here to draw attention to them.

      Leaves of the following should be dried and stored: Ash, Blackberry, Black Currant, Camomile, Dandelion, Ground Ivy, Golden Rod, Horehound, Iceland Moss, Lobelia, Nettles, Peppermint, Plantain, Raspberry, Scabious, Rosemary, Southernwood, Sorrel, Thyme, *Violet, Sage, Wormwood, Yarrow.

      Flowers of the following should also be stored: Camomile, Elder (Sambucus nigra), Red Clover, Hop, Marigold, and Safflower.

      Also Roots of the Dandelion, Lily of the Valley, Male Fern, Marshmallow, Red Dock, Rhubarb, Solomon’s Seal.

      And Barks of the Alder

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