After the riot at the Tower of London, I regarded this crisis as the second major challenge in my life.
— Arthur Hastings, "Fifty Years of Life"
All over the world, people from different countries and cultures have some traditional folk remedies passed down through generations.
In China, it's usually a bowl of ginger boiled with brown sugar water, or mung bean soup, or kudzu flower soup.
But in the Ottoman Empire, they prefer honey water soaked with mint. If they encounter a particularly severe drunkard, they might occasionally use dates with olive oil for an enema.
The usual method in Germany and Russia is sauerkraut soup, or crumbled black bread added to weak beer, boiled into a scalding hot rye bread hangover soup.
In Britain, if you were to ask which is the most representative hangover food, it would undoubtedly be beef tea.
Beef tea, in fact, is not a tea but a drink made by chopping lean beef into pieces and simmering it for hours to filter out the broth.
