Herb
Dried Lime Leaf
B tier
Dried makrut/kaffir lime leaf keeps a shadow of the perfume. Crush into a curry if fresh is gone. It can taste dusty. Fresh makrut is the leaf. Dried is travel food.
Track this ingredient
Unit
Characteristics
Preparations
Crush In Curry
Traits
CupboardDust RiskKeepsLast ResortNot FreshShadow PerfumeTravelWeaker
History
Dried lime leaves were packed for export when fresh was rare.
Dried remained in spice jars; fresh frozen leaves improved the fallback.
Cooks treated dried lime leaf as a last resort beside frozen fresh.