My Old Mother Hubbard recipe for fighting flu - make a large pot of onion soup. Chuck in loads of garlic cloves and a huge dollop of cayenne pepper. Mix it all up and then open the bottle of scotch and make sure you have at least half the bottle while the brew is boiling. You will feel better. I promise. Jokes aside, that mix of ingredients does actually work for me. Don't know why it does - it just does. Minus the scotch of course.
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