Many people believe they don't like dishes flavored with herbs; yet they dine and enjoy dinner where herbs are properly used, and never know the dish they enjoyed owed its piquancy to their despised "yarbs." Herbs in the hands of an inexperienced or careless person are dangerous things - so are spices, and most of the prejudice comes from their association with bad cooking.

Any attempt to make good forcemeat without herbs degenerates into making the first stage of a bread-pudding, and omitting everything that makes it good.

Yet one remedy there is for those who do not want wet bread with an onion flavor, yet really cannot eat herbs, and that is in sausage-meat. Really good sausage-meat put into the breast of a turkey or chicken is a great improvement to the bird : its richness moistens it and adds much to the flavor; it must not go into the body, or it becomes steamed and unpleasant.