[Sca-cooks] white ginger

[Terry Decker]

White ginger is peeled ginger.  Black or gray ginger is unpeeled ginger. 
Green ginger is the undried rhizome.  White ginger is modernly used to refer 
to peeled Jamaican ginger which may also be bleached.  That may not be what 
Platina is referring to as "gingiberis albi," but it is a good possibility 
the term white ginger is older than the modern usage.

Bear

> I have a friend not on this list who had a question about "white ginger" 
> as mentioned in the Platina. Apparently the recipe said something to the 
> order of "use as much as you can afford". The translation said "white 
> ginger", but her take on the Latin (she's had a bit) is that it might have 
> been the white parts of the ginger.
>
> Anybody have any ideas on this one?  Is there a white ginger plant as 
> opposed to a regular ginger plant?
>
> Samrah