Dried thyme is very well known for its distinctive taste and flavour. It is widely used as a culinary herb and as herbal medicine for its unique medicinal proprieties.
We love thyme for a never-ending list of reasons, but our all-time favourite is the fact that it’s one of the few herbs that won’t lose its flavour when cooked for long periods making it superb in recipes calling for lengthy, slow cooking times! Thyme has an earthy, slightly sweet/minty taste with a delightfully warming scent. Any foodie should have a lot of thyme for this classic herb…
Add to stews, casseroles, soups, and roasts. Sprinkle thyme into the water of vegetables to be steamed, boiled, or roasted, or use to flavour vinegars and oils. Add the fragrant dried herb to potpourri and pop into scented sachets, tuck away in your kitchen cupboards to help repel insects and odours.
Dried Thyme
Thyme is an aid to digestion and helps break down fatty foods. Mix with parsley and bay in bouquet garni. Use to flavour vinegars, herbal butters, tea, poultry, game, fish, stuffings, stews, stocks, soups, bread, mayonnaise, mushrooms, broccoli and added to salads.
Infuse to make a tea and mix with honey to sooth coughs and sore throats. Use the dried flowers and leaves in sachets and pot pourris.