Manchester Berries

Manchester (UK) is full of berries.  You see them on trees, shrubs, everywhere.   Nobody gives them a second thought.  See for yourself:

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

And what do you do with all these berries?  

Household remedy for cold.  Harvest them, clean them, crush them, then a secret sauce of lemon and cranberry juice is used to soak them, and then a bit of heating and filtering.  Finally, you get ‘Fire-water’, which is a remedy for flu!

 

A friend prepared a bottle of this potion for me.  And it works! Photograph below.  

The potion tastes somewhat like the ginger-lemon drink of old Bombay but is more astringent.   

Manchester, UK, 2021Nov27