[Sca-cooks] Canton ginger?

[Johnna Holloway]

The Herb Society of America lists ginger this way:
Genus: Zingiber
Specific Epithet: officinale
Common Names: ginger, garden ginger, common ginger, Canton ginger
Family: Zingiberaceae (ginger)

That seems to indicate that it's just another name for
ginger.

Did not find it in Bruce Cost's Ginger East to West.
I am wondering if it's not an American term as
Canton ginger is also used in the edition of
The Boston Cooking School Cook Book
from 1918.
(online at http://www.bartleby.com/br/87.html)
I am wondering if this was the ginger that was purchased in the
Blue Canton ginger jars.

I'll keep looking.

Johnnae

Kathleen A Roberts wrote:

> the pear tree is telling me to start looking at that ginger pear 
> preserve recipe in my Settlement Cookbook. >
> it calls for 'canton ginger'.  snipped
> i have a thought that, the cookbook being old, it was one of ye olde 
> charming ways of identifying fresh ginger with exotic chinese roots 
> (so to speak).  or not. snipped
>> any ideas?>
> cailte
>