[Sca-cooks] Making Mustard

[Elaine Koogler]

Jill Brown wrote:
> Greetings -
> I post once in a great while on this list and truly enjoy reading what 
> everyone has to say and am learning from all of you.
> I have a question.  I have lots of mustard seeds (worked part time as 
> bookkeeper for a restaurant that closed and for final pay got to take 
> home lots of stuff) and I would like to make mustard.  I have been 
> doing some research on the internet but with not much luck.  Is 
> mustard period?  and what are thoughts about it?
> Thanks!
> Gabrielle
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Oh my....yes, mustard is definitely period.  There are many, many period 
recipes ranging from the sweet (i.e., a reddish mustard from Platina...I 
think the recipe is in the Florilegium) to some really hot ones.  I have 
made mustard sauces...the one that comes to mind is a mustard sauce for 
pork brawn...and there's also a late-period recipe for hard-boiled eggs 
with a mustard sauce.  I don't have time right this minute to send you 
the recipes, but will try to do so when I get past the work deadline I'm 
looking at this afternoon.

Kiri