Preserving Herbs
Once you cut your herbs you must decide if you are going to dry them or preserve them. Drying changes and intensifies the flavor. Preserving allows you to hold onto the fresh herb flavor in some fashion.
There are three basic preservation methods:
- Herbal Vinegar – Using fresh air-dried herbs you place them in a glass (non-reactive) container. I use glass corn syrup jars with plastic lids. Cover the herbs with plain white vinegar or white wine vinegar. Bruise the herbs with a spoon or other implement. Then you can use one of two methods:
· Cold infusion – you allow the herbs to simply rest in a cool dark place for at least 4 to 6 weeks before straining and using the vinegar.
· Warm infusion – you microwave the container with herbs and vinegar for 2 minutes then cap and place in a cool dark place. This will only need 2 weeks before it can be strained and used.
Once the herbs have infused the vinegar with their flavor you want to strain and rebottle the vinegar for use. You can keep it in any...
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