[Sca-cooks] Canton ginger?

[Kathleen A Roberts]

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:45:23 -0400
  Johnna Holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu> wrote:

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

> 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 
>
my husband's grandfather used to love that stuff in the 
syrup, and he originally gave me the settlement cookbook 
when connor and i got married.  grandfather said his wife 
got one when they married and it saved his life a number 
of times. ;)

i was also considering that it might be that exact same 
candied, syrupy almost ginger.  heck, after 4 lbs. of 
sugar, what's a little syrup?

cailte
who could cook long before she got the book, thank you
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