spearmint

Updated: May 6, 2025

Todd that it was time to make a supply of cough-drops, and she had been bringing forth herbs from dark and dry hiding-places, until now the pungent dust and odor of them had resolved themselves into one mighty flavor of spearmint that came from a simmering caldron of syrup in the kitchen.

Sarah Orne Jewett - The Country of the Pointed Firs