Safe from 6 months.
This guide covers fresh sage. For dried, use a small pinch for babies under 12 months.
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Use very finely minced fresh leaves or one whole leaf infused into butter or oil during cooking, then removed. The strong earthy flavor mellows with heat. Works well with squash and sweet potato.
Finely minced and cooked into butter pasta, stuffed squash, or bean dishes. One or two leaves go a long way.
Any family use: brown butter sage sauce, stuffing, pork dishes, ravioli.
Garden notes
Hardy perennial that improves with age. Harvest before flowering for best flavor. Older plants get woody at the base. Cut back by a third in spring to keep bushy. Great companion for brassicas (repels cabbage moths) and carrots.
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