anton wrote:

Kate Morgan wrote in message ...
can anyone tell if drying nettle leaves in the microwave makes them lose
any of their goodness as a herb, or are they better left hung up to wilt
and dry in their own time.

Dunno, but around this time of year you can cook 'em as a nice soup: Snip
loadsa nettles two or three inches from the tip, so you get the least
stringy bits. Fry an onion or two, bung in a
potato, add your washed nettle tips in large quantities, chuck
some chicken stock on (or water+ chicken oxo cube if no
chicken stock). Liquidise. As you serve add a spiral of
cream.

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Anton

A bit of bacon is lovely in it too.
Anita