Has anyone ever heard of White Lightning? It's not an alcoholic drink, its supposedly a remedy that can be used to cure anything. The only ingrediant I can remember is crushed aspirin. I've looked everywhere but I can't find it. Does anyone have a recipe?
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In the serie "Remedies We’d Rather Forget": "Grandma’s White Lightning GRANDMA LESH would fix up a remedy that fixed anything. It even worked as a bug repellent (it smelled so bad that a bug wouldn’t go near you). Grandma mixed several things into a gallon container and shook it all up. I’ve misplaced her recipe, but I remember some of the ingredients a bottle of rubbing alcohol, a bottle of peroxide and 23 crushed aspirin tablets. The clear, smelly mixture worked well for insect bites, earaches and toothaches. Applied to a splinter with a cotton ball, the concoction made the splinter pop right out. If you had any ache or pain, Grandma would say, “Fetch me the jug of white lightning.” In the ’50s, I had a bad sunburn and couldn’t sleep. Grandma was soon there with her jug. The remedy burned terribly, but in a short time, the pain was gone. The sunburn never blistered or peeled. At the lake, with so many of us kids, Grandma kept her jug and cotton balls close by." Source: http://www.reminisce.com/largeprint/2007/JJ07/remedies.pdf
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