Nonnie had everyone in her spell.
With home made drop biscuits & peach cobbler to die for.
And a knack for picking the sweetest watermelon in the patch.
And if that didn't cure what ailed ya she also had her
Secret Recipe's
But the old stand by was always the bottle of Turpentine.
Liberally applied to any part of the body for any illness.
I remember a story
told to me by my mom, once when
about 15 she got a heat rash
located in the groin area.
When she told Nonnie about it she told her
to take that bottle of
turpentine go into your room fill your hand and
with one quick move
apply it to the infected area.
This mom did and when that turpentine hit the infected
area she let out
a scream and flipped and flopped around on the bed for several
minutes.
The following day the rash was gone and she never had another
rash, at least none that Nonnie knew about.