{"id":5898,"date":"2018-05-23T13:06:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T19:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=5898"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:06:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T19:06:53","slug":"mint-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/mint-sauce.html","title":{"rendered":"Mint Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;In England, serving roast lamb without mint sauce, a simple composition of fresh mint, sugar, and\u00a0vinegar is widely considered an egregious offense to taste and tradition. The Romans introduced the plant to English soil, and, as the 16th-century English botanist John Gerard pointed out, &#8216;The smell of mint does stir up the minde and the taste to a greedy desire of meat.&#8217; &#8220;Megan Wetherall, from &#8220;Dinner Mint&#8221;(April 2000)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 1\/4\u00a0 c mint leaves, finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>1 tbsp. sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\u2044 2 tsp. kosher salt<\/li>\n<li>1 c white vinegar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Combine mint, sugar, salt, and \u2044 cup boiling water.<\/li>\n<li>Stir until sugar dissolves.<\/li>\n<li>Add vinegar.<\/li>\n<li>Cover; let sit for 1 hour to meld the flavors.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Serves:<\/strong> 1 1\/4 cups<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0 Saveur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In England, serving roast lamb without mint sauce, a simple composition of fresh mint, sugar, and\u00a0vinegar is widely considered an egregious offense to taste and tradition. The Romans introduced the plant to English soil, and, as the 16th-century English botanist John Gerard pointed out, &#8216;The smell of mint does stir up the minde and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/mint-sauce.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mint Sauce&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-5898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sauces","tag-koa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6000,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions\/6000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}