48.  Tea-box. Tea was mostly used as medicine in Hungarian peasant culture. Teas were made of local herbs, flowers and leaves. Women in Tihany collected the herbs still covered with dew at dawn on Saint Anna’s Day (26th July), as it was believed this makes them more efficient. Imported tea-leaves spread thank to the holidaymakers from the capital.

Porta in Köveskál in 1981. Do you need a better picture that testifies to the complex peasant gardens of our grandmothers? Veil flower, stink bug, morning glory, rose, copper flower, chrysanthemum… Did we miss something? Recorded by Emőke Laczkovits from 1981. Dezső Laczkó Museum, Photographs of source value. D.8036.

Gyógyfüveket áruló asszony a veszprémi piacon. 1938, Vajkai Aurél felvétele. Laczkó Dezső Múzeum, Forrásértékű fényképek. N.1432.