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}}</ref>, but you can find more in other Old Polish advice book. Curiously, most of them recommend making sweet mustards. As such, sweet mustard may not be very surprising (honey mustard is still quite popular in our time), but the very diversity of possible sweet ingredients could boggle you mind. What has caught my attention is an 18th-century recipe for mustard flavoured with pears and honey cake (a kind of gingerbread), which you will find at the end of this post.
As new mustard recipes were being developed, so did novel ways to serve the mustard on the table in an elegant way. You may remember [[Epic_Cooking:_The_Last_Old_Polish_Feast#The_Centrepiece_Masterpiece|Adam Mickiewicz's poetic description of the elaborate centrepiece of Soplicowo]]. According to Jędrzej Kitowicz, an indispensable element of such a centrepiece were what spherical receptacles he called "bubbles", sitting snugly in metal rings welded to the vertical parts of the structure.
[[File:Bańki srebrne z łyżeczkami wyzłacanymi.jpg|thumb|left|Silver bubbles with spoons of the same metal, gilded inside]]