mustard and cress
mustard and cress Salad herb mixture of leaves of mustard (Brassica alba) and garden cress (Lepidium sativum). Often mustard is replaced with rape (Brassica napus var oleifera)—a different strain from that used for rape seed oil—it has a larger leaf and grows faster than mustard.
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