[Sca-cooks] Recipes for mustard oil?

[Laura C. Minnick]

On 11/15/2011 10:47 AM, Kathleen Roberts wrote:
> I seem to recall heaing (the ubiquitous) somewhere that it is quite volatile and on a par with jalepeno for getting it in sensitive places.
>
> Cailte
>

There's a story by Clarence Day in 'Life With Father' (might have been 
Life With Mother') where his father comes down with bronchitis, and the 
doctor is too busy to come by (because everyone else had the same thing, 
I think), so he told the mother to just make up a mustard plaster for 
him. Mother was a society girl, debutante and all that, raised with 
servants, and knew nothing of that sort of thing. But how hard can it 
be, right? So she got down the mustard powder and mixed up a paste and 
spread it on Father and put the cloth down. She did not know that you 
use at least as much flour as mustard when making a mustard plaster! Now 
the doctor had said to leave it on a specific length of time, but Father 
started yelling before the time was up, insisting that it was too hot 
and take it off now. But he was always yelling like that, so Mother 
pooh-poohed him and made him wait out the whole time, even though the 
noise level went up. Finally the time was up, and she peeled off the 
cloth and the mustard, and Father's skin came away with it.

So the doctor had to come by after all.

(When do we get a Drakey story about mustard or capsacin or something on 
private parts?)

Liutgard

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