[Sca-cooks] Potrero seige contest

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Wed May 31 15:53:05 PDT 2006


On May 31, 2006, at 6:41 PM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> 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.

Thanks, Urtatim, you saved me some typing ;-). Any chance the black  
seeds were actually nigella? Some of the same letters, anyway...

Adamantius



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