John Evelyn's Salad Sermon #3 Mustard

Johnny is a fan...

Mustard; exceedingly hot, not only in the seed but in the leaf also, especially in the young seedling plants, like those of Radish (newly peeping out of the bed,) has an incomparable effect to quicken and revive the spirits, strengthen the memory and expel heavines. In short it is the most noble and so necessary ingredient to all cold and raw Salleting, that it is very rarely, it at all, to be left out.


Once again, he nails it.  It's difficult to find fault with that analysis.

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