It does make sense if it's molasses - but I can't find any ref to Jolop on the web except for the usual "Surname: Jolop - research your family tree" or "Buy Jolop on EBay".
The only exception is this...
CA Bogardus (1891) One thousand secrets of rich and wise men revealed.
CATHARTIC PILLS.—One-half oz. extract Colacinth, in powder, three drms. Jolop in powder, three drms. Calomel, two scru. Gamboge in powder. Mix these together and with water form into mass and roll into 180 pills. Dose, one pill as a mild laxative, two in vigorous operations. Use in all bilious diseases when purges are necessary.
http://fax.libs.uga.edu/AG105xB74/ or http://fax.libs.uga.edu/text/otstxt.txt if you don’t want to install the DjVu plug-in
You can get molasses powder - so maybe Jolop is molasses. I had thought that Jolop might be a Manchester dialect word but CA Bogardus was published in Springfield, Missouri so it can't be.
Constipation is a common disease, with many different causes. The common treatment for it is jollop. Jollop only alleviates the symptom and makes people dependent on medicine. What is more, frequent intake of jollop is bad for health.
or this from Terry Pratchett: Granny's remedies, made from simple, honest, and generally nearly poisonous herbs and roots, were amazing things. After one dose of stomache-ache jollop, you made sure you never complained of stomach ache ever again. In its way, it was a sort of cure. (Terry Pratchett, Truckers)
I just googled jollop (not much came up with one L so I tried an alternate spelling). In the back of my mind it was something you were given a good dose of. Google came up with http://www.allwords.com/word-jollop.html which defines jollop as strong liquor or medicine
I was born in Newton Heath on 22 May 1836 and ran a shop in Miles Platting (or Newton Heath), just off the Oldham Road. I began this recipe book in 1861 when I lived at 292 Shakespeare Terrace (see first post). I married John Smith Gradwell on the 30th October, 1862 at All Saints' Church, Newton Heath and I died in 1912 (I think).
The receipes (about two hundred of them) are from the original recipe book which has been handed down through a few generations. The early recipes are just lists of ingredients but later ones are more instructive. The later ones are pages long - and there are newspaper cuttings. Handwriting and presumably authors change during the book. I have posted them in the same order as the book. It looks as though the book was written from both ends and some of the more modern recipes are in the middle.
The recipes come from two sources: Elizabeth Ridings' recipe book (dated 1860 - see first post) Bertha Caroline Wells' recipe book (dated 1898) [BCW] The scraps of newspaper were inserted into the recipe books.
Bertha Caroline Wells is my Daughter in Law (Born on 7th June 1873 in Bury, Lancashire. Died on 13th June 1930)
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Jolop might be blackstrap molasses it's suggested.
http://forums.about.com/ab-homecooking/messages?msg=16622.34
It does make sense if it's molasses - but I can't find any ref to Jolop on the web except for the usual "Surname: Jolop - research your family tree" or "Buy Jolop on EBay".
The only exception is this...
CA Bogardus (1891) One thousand secrets of rich and wise men revealed.
CATHARTIC PILLS.—One-half oz. extract Colacinth, in powder, three drms. Jolop in powder, three drms. Calomel, two scru. Gamboge in powder. Mix these together and with water form into mass and roll into 180 pills. Dose, one pill as a mild laxative, two in vigorous operations. Use in all bilious diseases when purges are necessary.
http://fax.libs.uga.edu/AG105xB74/
or
http://fax.libs.uga.edu/text/otstxt.txt if you don’t want to install the DjVu plug-in
You can get molasses powder - so maybe Jolop is molasses. I had thought that Jolop might be a Manchester dialect word but CA Bogardus was published in Springfield, Missouri so it can't be.
Nina, someone else from home cooking, suggests...
"Maybe the Jolop is Julip. which is a sweet syrup"
This from http://www.quantum-bio.com.cn/p5_e.htm
Constipation is a common disease, with many different causes. The common treatment for it is jollop. Jollop only alleviates the symptom and makes people dependent on medicine. What is more, frequent intake of jollop is bad for health.
or this from Terry Pratchett:
Granny's remedies, made from simple, honest, and generally nearly poisonous herbs and roots, were amazing things. After one dose of stomache-ache jollop, you made sure you never complained of stomach ache ever again. In its way, it was a sort of cure. (Terry Pratchett, Truckers)
I just googled jollop (not much came up with one L so I tried an alternate spelling). In the back of my mind it was something you were given a good dose of. Google came up with http://www.allwords.com/word-jollop.html
which defines jollop as strong liquor or medicine
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