Savory of the Day

When I started the backyard garden about 5 years ago I planted a number of herbs, some annual, like basil, and some perennial like mint. I had forgotten the name of one of the herb plants. I knew it is a perennial since it comes back each year, bigger and more plentiful. Over the years I have asked people what it is but no one seemed to know for certain. My own suspicion was that it is an herb called savory. Some years I have picked it and dehydrated it and marked the bottle with a question mark. Other years, not knowing what it was I just let it grow and go.

So today after I picked and cleaned a big bunch of this herb I decided to finally, once and for all, figure out what it was. After researching perennial herbs on the web I have concluded it is savory after all. In fact it is winter savory.

Winter savory is not so common an herb in modern times but it was an extremely popular herb in days of old for culinary and medical purposes. In fact the word ‘savory’, meaning good taste or when used as an adjective meaning “morally wholesome or acceptable”, comes from this plant.

So this mysterious herbs turns out to be savory, a valuable herb for cooking and medicine. Yes I have a savory garden.

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