[Sca-cooks] Recipes for mustard oil?

[Gretchen Beck]

It's not Drakey, but family legend has it that my grandfather came home sore one day from the ironworks and figured, since he hurt all over, he should have linament all over....so he poured a big bottle of wintergreen oil into the bathtub., and, well.....

toodles, margaret
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From: sca-cooks-bounces+grm+=andrew.cmu.edu at lists.ansteorra.org [sca-cooks-bounces+grm+=andrew.cmu.edu at lists.ansteorra.org] on behalf of Laura C. Minnick [lcm at jeffnet.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 6:14 PM
To: Cooks within the SCA
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Recipes for mustard oil?

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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