Hunting mushrooms, drinking
sassafras tea. All of it." Joan smiles at the man and says, "It's great you have these experiences and it must be nice to share them with your family as they enjoy the wild edibles and woods." Finally, this last piece of artifact data provides one example of many in which memories and experiences are described in the weekly Interpretive Programs bulletin.
In reply to
Sassafras Tea, per Orval Dean, the best time to dig sassafras for tea is between November and March, when the sap is down in the roots.
Appalachian rituals like
sassafras tea, planting peas by the moon,
On a dark winter night, curl up by the fire with a steaming mug of
Sassafras tea. These loose-leaf, herb-infused teas are caffeine-free, and have names like Cold Shoulder and Shush.
The roots have been used to make root beer as well as the famous
sassafras tea and the oil is still used as a fragrance in candles and soaps.
She made her own medicines from herbs and gleanings in the woods that surrounded their home: Turpentine and sugar for worms (whether you had 'em or not); goose-grease and onion poultices wrapped in soft muslin and slapped on the bare chest;
sassafras tea in spring to thin the blood; asafetida bags to hang around the neck in winter to ward off colds.
Mouthwatering bread pudding, hoecakes, groundnut stew and
sassafras tea are just a few.
Mix 1-2 teaspoons of cod liver oil into a cup of
sassafras tea dally.
So, I built my lean-to, made my
sassafras tea, and on the third day, when they returned to pick me up, they found me standing alone on the side of a mountain wailing along with Ethel Merman, "Curtain up, light the lights!"
Her desire to enact the prescripted terms of the heterosexual marriage plot represents to him an oblivion of days of imitative respectability - and multiple thousands of cups of
sassafras tea. What she offers him - or, rather, what she stands for to him - is a blank composite of officially appealing virtues and a classist vision of culture, derived from and obedient to her Bostonian background.
Today a few stores still sell the root bark to fanciers of
sassafras tea.
About 3% believed it somewhat effective to use
sassafras tea to reduce swelling in the feet/legs associated with diabetes (i.e., Mean = 1.30 and SD = .78).
