[Sca-cooks] cracked ginger? almond milk

[Stefan li Rous]

Ilsebet gave her redaction (creation?) for a compote recipe and said:
<<< I used a lot of cloves, a good bit of mace, some allspice
(to sub for cubebs), cracked ginger (from Penzey's), and some black
pepper.>>>

What is "cracked ginger"? I've heard of "candied ginger",  
"srystalized ginger" and "cracked pepper" but haven't heard of this  
before.

<<< Next feast,
I may try some of the almond-milk recipes for the special diet folks,
but using rice milk instead. >>>

I thought you originally meant recipes for making almond milk, but I  
guess you are talking about recipes that specify almond milk. Unless  
you were avoiding the almonds, I was wondering why you wouldn't just  
make almond milk.

If I'm wrong, and/or you can actually use almond milk, here is  
Florilegium file, in the FOOD section that has some useful  
information on making your own. While you can buy it, the commercial  
stuff often has additional emulsifiers and such added to it and isn't  
that much cheaper.

almond-milk-msg  (100K)  1/12/08    Making almond milk. Recipes.  
Deskinning nuts

Stefan
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