"jmcquown" > wrote in message
. ..
> Herman Munster wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I was pondering making Alton Brown's breakfast sausage recipe for
> > Christmas morning.
> >
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/reci..._23907,00.html
> > The recipe calls for fresh herbs. Can you substitute dry? If so to
> > what proportion?
>
> The quantity of dried herbs is usually doubled. Depends on how freshly
> dried they are. If you bought them off the shelf - aka McCormick's,
Lawry's
> from a supermarket, they could have been sitting there for a year and will
> have lost flavour.
>
> Jill
>
>

Everything I have ever read says the opposite. Herbs shrink when they dry so
1 TB of dry is equivalent to 2, 3, 4, or even more TB of fresh.


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