With a long and complex processing, is a spicy sweet sauce used  with  meat, in particular boiled, cotechino and zampone or with cheese. Anyway, there is not a single original recipe of “fina” mustard but different recipes connected to the various families who produce it. Undoubtedly, the cultivation of the typical apples and pear ( as Gagliardine and Decime apples) contributed to the creation of the recipe that included also orange peels, candied citron, raisins, mustard, honey and other spices, ingredients that are common in all the various families’ recipes, along with other ones connected to the personal tastes or “ secret ingredients”. But the real Mostarda Sopraffina from Carpi was the secret recipe of Sebellini Family who used to have a grocery in Carpi: producers preserve it, nowadays as in the past, in inverted pear-shaped clay jars . It is prepared in winter and, for this reason, it was a usual gift for Christmas festivities.