But the wild mints can be used in any recipes calling for mint. Since bought mint is pretty expensive, and it's stone easy to grow indoors, sprigs of store-bought mint may be rooted in a glass jar of water in a sunny windowsill, then potted, just as easily as wild mints. In outdoor gardens, store-bought mint likes dappled sun and shade, most wild mints prefer full sun. Fish were stuffed with, and wrapped in, mints. Since the flavor oil is rather volatile, little remains of the minty taste when these are boiled, they are a kind of cooked green veggie then.
More herbal flavor is held in in a stuffed, wrapped baked fish.
Of course lots of fresh mint leaves, chopped with some whole for garnish, improves every fruit salad and most green salads. This is indicative of possible small business opportunity for reservation youth. M int, and certain other cooking herbs such as basil and cooking sage are called carminatives in old herbals. Culpepper is a fascinating character. Most were used to self-doctoring with country herbs, and were preyed upon in the city by charlatan herbalists.