Fennings

talentedbutslow · 12-03-2011, 12:15

As a kid , Mum used to dose us up with Fennings fever cure.Anyone else remember this foul tasting concoction?...You couldn,t drink it......only sip it.... and the taste stayed for hours...She used to give us a sweet to get rid of the taste ....it never did.This horrible cure was supposed to combat the common cold and myriad other diseases.
Not content with this torture....us kids were made to swallow olive oil and raspberry vinegar and halibut liver oil capsules...URRGGGGGHHHHHHH!

Greeny · 12-03-2011, 12:18

I do not remember the medicine but I do remember Fenning Little healers , mum called them Lung Healers , they were ever so tiny, like a pinhead of a tablet.

Barrie Yates · 12-03-2011, 13:03

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Originally Posted by talentedbutslow

As a kid , Mum used to dose us up with Fennings fever cure.Anyone else remember this foul tasting concoction?...You couldn,t drink it......only sip it.... and the taste stayed for hours...She used to give us a sweet to get rid of the taste ....it never did.This horrible cure was supposed to combat the common cold and myriad other diseases.
Not content with this torture....us kids were made to swallow olive oil and raspberry vinegar and halibut liver oil capsules...URRGGGGGHHHHHHH!

Fond rememberance, must have been wierd then as I loved it. Had a cat that started sneezing so Dad gave it some Fennings - we didn't see the cat for over a week.

jaysay · 12-03-2011, 15:06

I can always remember my mother using Hills Bronchial balsam when she had a chesty cough, I used it early on, but never seemed to do me much good

steeljack · 12-03-2011, 18:21

I liked the stuff , think the quinine in it gave me a taste for Gin and Tonic in later years

katex · 12-03-2011, 19:31

LOL .. 'you lot' are so funny.

Only Beecham's Powder ... put on a spoon mixed with a fruit jam .. that was yucky too.

Margaret Pilkington · 12-03-2011, 20:35

I remember Fennings Fever cure, and the little lung healers.......and Beechams powders(Kate, we got 'em just as they were, we were too poor to get jam).
I hated Cod Liver oil, but the rule in our house was, if you didn't take the cod liver oil, then you didn't get your share of the clinic orange juice.
I used to get around this by swigging my clinic orange juice when Ma was out of the house, and diluting what was left in the bottle with tap water.

Virol, Scotts Emulsion...the stuff that kept us going...oh no! sorry that was California Syrup of Figs

katex · 12-03-2011, 21:21

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

then you didn't get your share of the clinic orange juice.
I used to get around this by swigging my clinic orange juice when Ma was out of the house, and diluting what was left in the bottle with tap water.

Gosh, forgotten about that .. yes, was really thick . Can taste it now. Naughty girl ... Guess survival of the fittest, eh ?

flashy · 12-03-2011, 21:26

i remember Fennings cooling powders, i used them once or twice for Reece when he was a baby

Margaret Pilkington · 12-03-2011, 21:29

Oooh, it was lovely. We never got sweet things, so this was a real treat, and to be denied it because I wouldn't have the cod liver oil, was a real punishment.

As for sweet things.......we used to sit on the back step during the summer(although we called it the back stoop) with a bit of rhubarb and a paper twist of sugar......if we had no rhubarb, it was a twist of paper with cocoa and a bit of sugar......dipping our mucky fingers in and licking off the chocolatey flavour. The nearest we got to chocolate was 'Worm Cakes'.....does anyone remember those?
Aah sweet memories.

Lost in Cornwall · 12-03-2011, 21:46

Always used to have to drink Fever Cure straight out of the bottle. Thought it was poison but my mother always had a good look at the bottle and wouldn't let me off until a decent amount had gone down my throat.

steeljack · 12-03-2011, 22:49

What was that "malt extract" stuff ? my family never had it but other did , a largetin or jam jar in the middle of the dinner table and after the food had been eaten those who wanted dug in and helped themselves to a spoonful , the stuff looked like treacle but was I suppose some sort of 1950s food supplement.

Margaret Pilkington · 13-03-2011, 09:22

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Originally Posted by steeljack

What was that "malt extract" stuff ? my family never had it but other did , a largetin or jam jar in the middle of the dinner table and after the food had been eaten those who wanted dug in and helped themselves to a spoonful , the stuff looked like treacle but was I suppose some sort of 1950s food supplement.

Virol(mentioned in post 7).......I hated that too. Maybe because it was cod liver oil and malt......I just cannot stand cod liver oil........I know it is good for you, but it is hateful stuff.

jaysay · 13-03-2011, 10:23

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Originally Posted by katex

LOL .. 'you lot' are so funny.

Only Beecham's Powder ... put on a spoon mixed with a fruit jam .. that was yucky too.

Beecham's powders, hell my mother used to swear by them, first signs of a cold out the the BPs

jaysay · 13-03-2011, 10:26

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Virol(mentioned in post 7).......I hated that too. Maybe because it was cod liver oil and malt......I just cannot stand cod liver oil........I know it is good for you, but it is hateful stuff.

Ugh cod liver oil Margaret I shudder just thinking about it, hated it with a vengeance