"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> 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?!

No but I think it is funny to read about what they used to think.