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  • What to do with lots of mint!

    Somewhere to post ideas for using Mint

    Not a leaf or two for a hint of mint, but lots and lots.

    Apart from Mint sauce, I'm a bit stumped.

  • #2
    Mint ice cream?

    https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/...chip-ice-cream

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    • #3
      Mojitos, mojitos, mojitos!

      I have made mojitos with normal garden mint, black peppermint and water mint. The best is the garden mint. I cannot recommend the water mint, but it's not as bad as onion vodka.
      Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
      By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
      While better men than we go out and start their working lives
      At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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      • #4
        Mint Julep
        Mint and chocolate chip ice cream
        Mint Julep
        Moroccan mint tea
        Mint Julep
        Cucumber & mint raita
        Onion and Mint Vodka
        Mint and Rhubarb Crumble
        Mint Enfused Rum
        Mint and Walnut Pesto with Feta Cheese
        Mint Enfused Brandy
        Broadbean and mint Hummus
        Mint Enfused Gin

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Jay-ell View Post
          Mint and Rhubarb Crumble
          Oh wow that's a good idea.
          Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
          By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
          While better men than we go out and start their working lives
          At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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          • #6
            Chop finely and add it near the end to risotto and curry.
            Location ... Nottingham

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            • #7
              Will be watching this thread very closely.
              Like VC I have rather a lot of mint and no idea what to do with it
              I'm about to google some of the ideas that have already been mentioned.

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              • #8
                Mint wine
                1.5 pints of mint leaves
                3lb of sugar
                8oz sultanas
                2 lemons
                1 Camden tablet
                0.5 teaspoon of grape tannin
                1 gallon of water
                yeast and nutrient
                Boil the water, put leaves in large vessel and bruise the leaves, pour boiling water on top, stir in crushed Camden tablet and cover and leave for 24 hours. Strain liquid, use a couple of pints in a saucepan to boil and dissolve the sugar in it, when cool add to rest of liquid. Now add yeast, nutrient, chopped sultanas, tannin and juice of lemons, cover and leave in a warm place for 4 days. Finally strain into demijohns and fit an air lock and ferment till clear, ready in 6 months.

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                • #9
                  When I start getting windfalls off the apple tree I make lots of little jars of mint jelly. I really like it with lamb or cheese and it is good for presents. Sage jelly is also good.

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                  • #10
                    I do mint butter and freeze it in discs. Lovely for that hit of fresh mint on potatoes or peas when the mint has died down over winter.

                    But I also use it quite a lot in cooking - yoghurt dips for spicy things etc. Mint and parsley make a lovely herb combination for salsa and/or couscous in lieu of coriander.

                    I also found my favourite mint tea was applemint, garden mint and black peppermint. Sublime.

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                    • #11
                      I use mint in my coriander chutney.

                      I also dry a lot of it. It makes great mint raita. I also use a good-sized pinch of it to make mint tea which is mintier than any store-bought mint tea.

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                      • #12
                        I have mint in a large tub and it doesn't have the chance to grow too much as I'm constantly nipping out the tops. I use most of it for mint tea, which I love, and drink every day. A big handful in the teapot, top up with not quite boiling water, steep for a few minutes. Lovely. I have a reserve smaller pot of mint in reserve, 'cos occasionally my picking outstrips the growing.
                        Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
                        Endless wonder.

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                        • #13
                          Definitely mojitos. I barely use mine for anything else.

                          Just reading that again it sounds bad.

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                          • #14
                            *high fives annie*

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by annie8 View Post
                              Definitely mojitos. I barely use mine for anything else.

                              Just reading that again it sounds bad.
                              And you're growing 3 acres of the stuff

                              New all singing all dancing blog - Jasons Jungle

                              �I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
                              ― Thomas A. Edison

                              �Negative results are just what I want. They�re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don�t.�
                              ― Thomas A. Edison

                              - I must be a Nutter,VC says so -

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