[Sca-cooks] Potrero seige contest
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Wed May 31 15:41:36 PDT 2006
Bj Jane Tremaine wrote:
> The small black spice seed was galangal and we also had a compot of root
> vegtables in cider.
I wasn't there so i don't know what the black seeds were (wild guess,
nigella), but there is not a doubt in the world that they were NOT
galangal.
Galangal is a rhizome closely related to ginger. It looks a lot like
ginger, but the "fingers" are more cylindrical and the whole rhizome
is much harder. Not a seed at all. In fact, the plant does not make
seeds. It is propagated by breaking up the hands and planting the
fingers.
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Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
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