30-05-2025
A herbal remedy that cuts the garlic mustard
My Kentish great-grandmother used 'Jack-in-the-'edge' as she called it (garlic mustard) to make an all-purpose salve for her large family (Nell Frizzell, 24 May). The minced leaves were put in a dish with pork fat and cooked gently overnight in the kitchen range's slow oven. This produced a fragrant ointment thought to have antiseptic BaileySt Albans, Hertfordshire
Barbara Stewart-Knox's assertion that meat producers are 'the most greedy industry on the planet' (Letters, 23 May) misses some far stronger candidates for greediness. Private equity, for example, takes far higher profits, and manages to pay less tax, than most meat producers; and others in the financial sector come close in their pursuit of high pay and WallaceLiberal Democrat, House of Lords
That anyone can be 'accused' of writing outside their own experience is ludicrous (American Dirt author Jeanine Cummins: 'I didn't need to justify my right to write that book, 25 May). Just imagine, if Shakespeare had been so constrained, the world would never have known LewisSt Etienne de Gourgas, France
What's the difference between a sentence and a cat? Well, one has pauses at the end of its clauses while the other has clawses at the end of its pawses (Letters, 29 May).Jaki BrienNeston, Cheshire
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