Fresh Parsley
Parsley is a leafy green herb used in cooking. Parsley is used to add flavor to recipes, and to decorate a plate of food before serving. If you grow your own parsley, you may end up with some extra. This can be dried for use in the future. You can also dry it and sell it to your neighbors or friends for a little extra money.
Instructions
1. Gather parsley from your herb garden.
2. Cut the parsley with your food scissors into smaller bunches.
3. Bunch up your parsley into groups of three. Tie the three bunches together with a string around the stems.
4. Turn bunches upside down.
5. Set up an indoor clothing rack in a room that gets a lot of air. Bathrooms or other moist rooms are bad places to dry out your parsley.
6. Hang your parsley from an . These are perfect for use in drying herbs because your herbs can hang down without touching anything.
7. Leave your parsley alone for two to three weeks. The parsley should then crumble. This means it is completely dried.
8. Crumble the leaves off of the stems and place the leaves in an airtight container. You can use old baby food jars. Throw the stems away at this point.
9. Store your dried parsley in a dark place that stays relatively cool.
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