preserving dill
Melba's Jammin'
hutch...@aol.com (Hutchison7) wrote:
>I have a surplus of a very leafy variety of dill. Freeze it? Dry it?
**Either.
>conservatively I think there are 200 plants out there that
>came up from last year's seed.....
I've heard it'll do that.....(I get mine from my brother.) :-)
-Barb
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Eric
>>I have a surplus of a very leafy variety of dill. Freeze it? Dry it? I'll let
>>some go to seed but conservatively I think there are 200 plants out there that
>>came up from last year's seed.....
Freezing is good provided you do not overload a bag. Overloading a bag causes
the dill to mat when defrosting. If the quantity is so large and thick that it
does not readily defrost of its own accord at room temperature but requires
brute force, you will have dill soup or worse - a mess.
Best way to freeze dill is lay the fern on a cookie sheet in the freezer for
freeze up - then xfer to ziplocks. In this way you can increases density per bag
and withdraw fern by fern at usage.
Freezing dill weed produces a better result than drying. However with the
quantity you cite you will be wise to dry a goodly portion.
Blanche Nonken
> I have a surplus of a very leafy variety of dill. Freeze it? Dry it? I'll let
> some go to seed but conservatively I think there are 200 plants out there that
> came up from last year's seed.....
>
> katie
I've placed chopped dill in plastic freezer containers, extracting what
I needed from the frozen dill by scraping the surface with a fork, into
a small plate or bowl.