Mustard

I have a true passion for old stuff....i have a vintage soul (maybe i born too late :-D)...and mainly i really like old adverts and especially packaging (for example i love the old Guinness adverts series!)
Years ago i stayed for some months in Gloucester...and that town stimulated quite well this passion, i spent hours inside the Antique Centre (4 floors of antiques of every kind in one of the old docks)...and it had (now closed unfortunately) a nice museum dedicated to old packiging and adverts called "The Robert Opie Collection"
Sooo...looking at the metal tin of the Colman's Mustard...that after many years keep having the same old style packaging...my vintage soul tought "why not to recreate a kind of old image of it!'"
I took inspiration also by a cookbook i have "The Colman's Mustard Cookbook" ... the same editor has a great series of cookbooks dedicated to famous products, like Marmite, Heinz Ketchup, Lyle's golden syrup, Worcester sauce etc....each book with a series of recipes (of course), old images of adverts (love them) and history of the products! (as you can guess...i have quite a few of them :-D)

Sooo...this my attempt to recreate a vintage image of this famous Mustard...i quite like the resulit!

- the word "mustard" is thought to derive from the Latin words "must" (much) and "ardens" (burning).

- Mustard comes from the seeds of the mustard plant; the brown mustard plant (brassica juncea) produces the flour which provides hte heat, whilst the white mustard plant (sinapis alba) produces the flour which provide the flavour. the two flours are then combined into a special recipe.

- to remove odours such as fish or garlic from dishes and utensils, add a tablespoon of mustard to your washing-up water to help remove the whiff!

(info from the book mentioned above)