SUFFERING from a sore throat? Have you tried tying a sweaty sock around your neck to ease the soreness?Troubled by a chesty cough? Perhaps a spoonful of black treacle would banish it? These are just two of the intriguing remedies that feature in a new book by Kath Reynolds, of Havensfield Drive, Upper Tean.Kitchen Cupboard Cures of Staffordshire collects together home remedies practised throughout the county from the 1920s onwards.Kath, a reminiscence specialist, has been gathering stories and...
