Fighting Off Father Time with Medieval Anti-Aging Recipes
By: Dawn Pellas
Updated: September 16, 2011
ALTOONA, BLAIR COUNTY -- Dawn tries out anti-aging recipes from the days of King Henry the 8th with Lynn Botelho, a history professor and expert on old age from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Today, people love being "tan" and sun bathe constantly to get that coveted golden glow. But, Lynn says, for women of the 16th and 17th centuries, pale and pasty was the perfect shade! She explains why.
Anti-Aging Recipes
1. A Way to Whiten the Skin, and Take Away Sun-Burn (includes a modernization of original recipe using grapes):
Take of rain water and the juice of unripe grapes, each alike in quantity.
"Boil them together till one half be consumed."
"While it boils, add so much juice of lemons as was boiled away before."
Bring to a boil
Take off the fire
Let cool
Add 4 egg whites
Wash your face with it every morning.
2. "A Water to Take Away Wrinkles in the Face" (includes modernization using cucumbers and figs):
Take cucumber
Then an equal amount of figs
Mash together
Put on face
Then wash off
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From 1748 - 3 Easy Steps to Retaining Youth and Keeping Old Age Away
1. Always Rise from Table with an Appetite and Never Fast too Long.
2. Do Not Eat Immediately After Exercise.
3. Walk to Create an Appetite, and Ride after Dinner to Strengthen the Limbs. Dull Sight and Squinting are Helped by Shooting; Stooping by Swinging your Arms and Body.
Today, people love being "tan" and sun bathe constantly to get that coveted golden glow. But, Lynn says, for women of the 16th and 17th centuries, pale and pasty was the perfect shade! She explains why.
Anti-Aging Recipes
1. A Way to Whiten the Skin, and Take Away Sun-Burn (includes a modernization of original recipe using grapes):
Take of rain water and the juice of unripe grapes, each alike in quantity.
"Boil them together till one half be consumed."
"While it boils, add so much juice of lemons as was boiled away before."
Bring to a boil
Take off the fire
Let cool
Add 4 egg whites
Wash your face with it every morning.
2. "A Water to Take Away Wrinkles in the Face" (includes modernization using cucumbers and figs):
Take cucumber
Then an equal amount of figs
Mash together
Put on face
Then wash off
Web Exclusive:
From 1748 - 3 Easy Steps to Retaining Youth and Keeping Old Age Away
1. Always Rise from Table with an Appetite and Never Fast too Long.
2. Do Not Eat Immediately After Exercise.
3. Walk to Create an Appetite, and Ride after Dinner to Strengthen the Limbs. Dull Sight and Squinting are Helped by Shooting; Stooping by Swinging your Arms and Body.
