Does anyone have a really good recipe for chili to put on hot dogs? I used to have one that I think came on the box a bottle of Watkins Pure Vanilla but can't find it.
Oh yes, I remember the linament. I also remember castor oil being the remedy to cure everything from the common cold to cancer. About the only thing I get from Watkins any longer is their pure Vanilla extract. I am just about out and will probably have to order some online.ddsmit said:Bayou speaking of Watkins products, do you remember "Watkins Linament" or am I the only one old enough? My grandmother would put some sugar in a glass and put a few drops of linament on it and finish filling the glass with water. I loved it! I only got the stuff when I was feeling bad.
In later years I read the label, there was plenty of alcohol in it. No wonder I liked it.
Make mine a double!
RTR
CnW, I hated castor oil so much my mother mixed it with tomato juice. It was many years later before I tasted tomato juice again.CnW said:Good golly miss molly. Watkins Linament and castor oil was a way of life in my earlier years. My mother believed in both and we use to have a Watkins traveling salesman come around to the houses and sell their products. Castor oil was given to us kids mostly in the winter to work all the bugs out of your system if you know what I mean.
How about turpentine? Mother use to put sugar on a teaspoon of turpentine and makes us take that to keep us for worms. It's a wonder we didn't die from all of this, but we were healthier then than we are now.
Y'all just brought back some old memories.
Gosh, I remember them pouring coal oil on a cut or when you would step on a nail and we had many cuts and stepped on plenty of nails because we usually went barefoot from May-September. I've also had coal oil with a little sugar on it. Why are we still living?bayoutider said:My family was cruel and unreasonableWe all had to take our castor oil and coal oil straight up like a good shot of moonshine.
Guess they felt a chaser was for girly-men.
I don't ever remember having any worms, but we didn't get too close to open fires either.![]()
rolltideroll202 said:Hey Bayou this one is awesome, ive made it a few times. Everyone loves it
Hot Dog Chili from Aiken Pool Hall, Aiken, SC
1 lb. hamburger meat
4 medium onions, diced/chopped
4 T. yellow mustard
3 t. sugar
2 t. apple cider vinegar
2 t. chili powder
1 C. catsup
salt, to taste
Break up the hamburger meat and put into a 4-qt. pan. Add enough hot water to make a thick mix. Stir until smooth. Add the remaining ingredients. Cook slowly for 1 hour. Can be thinned as needed with water or beer.
Serving Size : 12
NOTES : The Aiken Pool Hall, Aiken, SC, is famous for having the best chili dogs in the area.
Speaking of Salves and ointments, what about Cumerandine Ointment? Do they still make that stuff? If we had anything externally wrong with us from a scratch to a broken bone, we got that stuff rubbed on us. It would have probably cured leprosy.Brtraker said:Castor oil, what a bad memory. My mom gave it to me in grapefruit juice and it was thirty years before I could drink grapefruit juice again.
Speaking of the old remedies, Do any of you OFCs remember Rosebud and Cloverine salve?