Peter Aitken wrote:
> "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.

I'm totally wrong - I was sleepy and had it backwards. mea culpa.

Jill