"jmcquown" > wrote:

>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
>

Actually dried herbs are stronger than fresh by about 2 or 3 times.


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