[Sca-cooks] Identifying mint

[Pixel, Queen of Cats]

According to the mint in my garden, peppermint has smooth leaves (makes it
hard to tell which is peppermint and which is chocolate mint just by
looking), and spearmint has, well, bumply leaves. Not smooth, anyway, but
not ruffled, either, like the pineapple mint, which has lovely variegated
green and white ruffled leaves.

IIRC, the stuff they sell in my local grocery looks remarkably like
spearmint.

As long as you have a sunny window, you can grow mint. Mine is sequestered
in a patch of dirt that is surrounded on three sides by concrete and one
by the house. Also in this patch are raspberries, a questionable rosebush,
and catnip--I figure I'll let them all fight it out. ;-)

Margaret FitzWilliam


On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

>
> I'm afraid i don't know about Persian mint.
>
> The mint used in modern Morocco for mint tea is basically spearmint.
> It's pretty amazing to see, on the road in the morning, an *entire*
> donkey cart piled with fresh mint on its way to a souq or a medina.
>
> My understanding is that spearmint is also the type of mint typically
> sold fresh in supermarkets. In mine, the sign just says "mint".
> Anyone here have any idea which it is? Think the produce dept. guys
> will know?
>
> What an imporverishment. There are so many different kinds of mints
> with so many flavors and we just normally can buy one or two unless
> we grow our own - and i live in an apt., so no place to grow mint.
>
> Anahita