On 7/8/2014 1:22 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "Tara" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Cookery in War Time - a historical cookbook linked from the blog. I am
>> fascinated with historical cookbooks.
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Byqn...N00/edit?pli=1
>>
>> Tara
>
> I love the ones along the lines of food, health, exercise, beauty and
> manners. I had one book of this same era that said if you were fat, you
> were to slap at the fat with your hands, as hard as you could, several
> times a day, enough to make the skin red. That was supposed to make the
> fat go away. You were also supposed to rub your skin really hard with a
> Turkish towel after a bath.

Did you fall for that nonsense?!

Jill