Browse:Garlic (Volume 1, entries 2487–2488)
Garlic
Volume 1, entries 2487–2488. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → BUSINESS AND CUSTOMERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 2487
Chip it up. an' put it in mah scrubbin' watah, make yo' lucky. (This garlic?) Jis' chip it up an' put it in watah jis' lak yo' would a onion yo' see. Don't let nobody cross in dis house whare ah done scrubbed until it dry out.
Entry 2488
You mean bootlegging business like that - like I used to be in on Drive Street. You'd take you some garlic. You'd take them garlic and you puts on a tub of water. You boil that garlic in that tub of water and when the water is hot you scrub your steps. Let everybody be absent but the one that's going to scrub the place and the one that's going to dress it. After everybody is out of there and this water is real hot, you scrub this place. When you scrub this place you put everybody out but the one that's going to dress it. Then you take you some beer, put you some sugar in that beer, put you some cinnamon in there, and put you some Lucky Heart drops. If you can't get that, you get this Heart Perfune, and you take that bottle and you go from the banquette [sidewalk in New Orleans], thataway, and just sprinkle it right up to this [front] door, and outside in the entry. Lock the door.