> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:19:38 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
>>On Sunday, February 18, 2018 at 12:55:44 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>>> On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:08:23 -0000, "Emrys Davies" >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >"Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>> >> On Friday, February 16, 2018 at 2:26:49 PM UTC-5, Emrys Davies wrote:
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>>> >> Although it would have been nice to know what kind of soup, Google is
>>> >> probably right.
>>> >>
>>> >> Spearmint is widely used in Middle Eastern savory dishes. It's the
>>> >> secret ingredient in my tabouli. For me, fattoush is just not right
>>> >> without some spearmint leaves torn up in it. I grow a pot of
>>> >> spearmint
>>> >> on the patio in the summer.
>>> >>
>>> >> Cindy Hamilton
>>> >
>>> >Thanks a lot Cindy. Like you I will also be growing a pot of spearmint
>>> >when
>>> >I find a plant or cutting. I am making Potato and Pea Soup and one of
>>> >the
>>> >ingredients is 1 tbsp fresh mint, chopped and I want to get the mint
>>> >aspect
>>> >correct.
>>>
>>> I like English mint for traditional mint sauce - last year when I went
>>> to get it at the garden place there was all sorts, fancy ones I had
>>> never even heard about. I asked the man why, what were people using
>>> it for and he told me its the young people they like different
>>> flavoured mints for cocktail type drinks
>>
>>Couldn't find "English mint" via Google. What species is it?
>>
>>Cindy Hamilton
>
> I can't honestly say, up until last year it would always be at the
> garden market called English mint. I'll take a look and see.
>
> Seems they don't specify, though this link
>
> https://www.thespruce.com/mint-sauce-recipe-1806850
>
> shows the type of mint I use. The ones they had for flavouring drinks
> did not have such crinkly style leaves, they were more flat. I know
> when I had a garden I planted the mint in a bucket with holes drilled
> into it, it's such a prolific grower it can soon take over a veggie
> bed.

I have found what I want now
https://www.wyevalegardencentres.co....nt-0850038702/
providing that they have it in stock