Omelet wrote:
> I've been substituting Mace for Clove in recipes. Similar flavor but so
> much milder. I'm not a real Clove fan.

My maternal grandfather was part native American, one of his cures for
an earache was to cook garlic in mineral oil, allow to cool, then he
would place the drops of oil in your ear(s). My mother still won't eat
garlic. For other remedies, he would use cloves, sassafras, epsom
salts, onions, beets, mustard powder, aloe vera, turmeric, ginger,
honey, the juice of snake gourds. You tended to keep your complaints to
yourself, or else he would be cooking up something to cure you.


Becca