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National Mustard Day
The first Saturday of August, an American day for the seed, with a museum in Wisconsin devoted to mustard.
Spices for National Mustard Day
National Mustard Day is celebrated in the United States on the first Saturday of August, centred on the National Mustard Museum in Middleton, Wisconsin. The seeds of the mustard plant come in yellow, brown and black, with the yellow seed giving American ballpark mustard its mildness and colour with turmeric, and the brown the sharper Dijon. The heat of mustard is released when the seed is crushed in water, and is lost in cooking, so it is added late.
The spices
Written by the EveryMasala desk with AI assistance. Background: "Mustard (condiment)" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Turmeric: J.M.Garg, CC BY 3.0, source
- Mustard seed: Pancrat, CC BY-SA 3.0, source