[Sca-cooks] Ginger?
Jessica Tiffin
melisant at iafrica.com
Sun Mar 23 00:17:15 PST 2003
Mirhaxa asked:
>Is there any evidence as to whether ginger was the fresh root or the dried
>and transported for months variety?
This discussion is bizarrely appropriate: I found myself at our cooks'
guild meeting last night trying to work out whether a German recipe
(Rumpolt) required fresh or dried ginger. The recipe is no. 113, from M.
Grass's online translation:
Green cabbage with pig's feet/ears / and prepared with good beef broth /
with whole pepper / nutmeg blossoms / crushed ginger / and minced
garlic. Let it cook therewith.
"Crushed ginger" to me means crushed fresh ginger, but it could also mean
crushed dried ginger... does anyone know of any 16th-century German recipes
which use fresh ginger more explicitly?
(With the fresh ginger, which is what I eventually settled for, it's a
really tasty way of cooking cabbage).
JdH
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