We received this mint from a client who in turn got if from his English sister in law. He claims that it is the kind of mint that is used to prepare the famous mint sauce. I had a traumatic experience with this sauce during my first ever stay abroad. It was around 1980 when Ireland was still far away and very special. There was already InterRail and I did spend most of my four weeks of InterRail in Ireland because railroad and ferries went on strike right after we had arrived (not because of us, but because the staff canteen of the railroad in dublin was to be relocated a few hundred meters down the road). We simply continued our vacation on foot and by hitchhiking and experienced the genuine Irish cuisine. As a rule the kitchen of a poor land is an excellent one. Ireland is the exception to this rule (Ná bheith trína chéile. Is breá liom na hÈireann!), and every meal was a new culinary blow below the belt. Finaly we reached the house of my pen pal and her parents prepared steak for dinner. Steak - you simply can`t make a mistake with steak, and it wasn`t fried in mutton grease either! The steak lay on my plate and smelled terrific when suddenly Mrs. O`Sullivan stepped beside me,holding a green bottle in her hand and tweeting `Have some mintsauce!`. With that she poured the content of the green bottle onto my steak ...

Now the good news. Royal Mint can be used to prepare a herbal infusion that even I consider delicious.