Mint Sauce.

skitler

fridge_raider wrote: »

5% dried is probably the same or more as 29% reconstituted. At least ASDA are being more honest about what's going in.

its words like probably I love most, its a elastic phrase and allows things to fit where they don't.

29% wet is probably more than 5% dried, its reported, (that's another elastic phrase, its reported)

regards I never shop at adas, when Tesco offer such quality and good value.:)

regards:beer:

stephen77

fridge_raider wrote: »

5% dried is probably the same or more as 29% reconstituted. At least ASDA are being more honest about what's going in.

Tesco are not lying in what's going in.
They have listed the ingredient legally.

There is more to mint sauce than just mint quantity.
I find some mint sauces quite acidic which is not nice. So not matter how much mint sauce is the sauce I will not like it.

The only way to see which you prefer is to buy both and see which is the best.
Reading the ingredient in this case, makes it a difficult to see which will be the most minty.

skitler

now if only trebor made xxx mint sauce, that would be minty :rotfl:

Dimey

When I was a girl everyone used to grow mint in their garden, even the townies. You couldn't buy it in a jar.

It was my job to make the mint sauce for Sunday lunch. I'd pick lots of leaves and wash them then chop them up and put them into a little jug. Add some malt vinegar and a small teaspoon of sugar and mix.

It was much more watery than what we get in the jar now.

skitler

Dimey wrote: »

When I was a girl everyone used to grow mint in their garden, even the townies. You couldn't buy it in a jar.

It was my job to make the mint sauce for Sunday lunch. I'd pick lots of leaves and wash them then chop them up and put them into a little jug. Add some malt vinegar and a small teaspoon of sugar and mix.

It was much more watery than what we get in the jar now.

thanks dimey.

what %age of mint would you say you put in.

regards:beer:

Dimey

skitler wrote: »

thanks dimey.

what %age of mint would you say you put in.

regards:beer:

Difficult to explain a %.
If you imagine a jam jar, I put in an inch or two of the chopped mint leaves and just added enough malt vinegar to cover them, then added the small teaspoon of sugar and stirred.

Just keep adding either component till you get the consistency to suit your taste. You can't go wrong.

skitler

Dimey wrote: »

Difficult to explain a %.
If you imagine a jam jar, I put in an inch or two of the chopped mint leaves and just added enough malt vinegar to cover them, then added the small teaspoon of sugar and stirred.

Just keep adding either component till you get the consistency to suit your taste. You can't go wrong.

oh you could sell that, that's at least 90% fresh mint, call it di-mintey sauce. :j:j

regards:beer:

Dimey

It doesn't last long as its so fresh. We just used to make it up fresh for each meal. I don't know about you but we had so much mint in the garden, there was an endless supply. It spreads like crazy.

We also used to have three different varieties. One was rather spearminty.

skitler

I have a massive garden it spans the whole country, and I do like to take samples from it, for personal consumption only, where ever I go.:rotfl:

I found a nice leg of lamb earlier just laying around and couldn't find its owner, so its only being polite that it accompanies my mint sauce tomorrow, if its owner cant be found that is.;)

regards:beer: