[Sca-cooks] cracked ginger? almond milk

[Amy Cooper]

I would have liked to provide a link for Penzey's cracked ginger, but
their site is not working for me from work. Here's a link to a
different store's cracked ginger:
http://www.savoryspiceshop.com/spices/gingercrckd.html  It seems to be
dried ginger in chunks, instead of ground fine. I found it first in
the spice cupboard when looking for any sort of ginger on the weekend,
so in it went.

And yes, I know I could make my own almond milk. However, there are a
few nut allergies in our shire, so something like rice milk is a safer
choice. If I was cooking for an event's feast, I would use my own
almond milk, but try to keep it to one or two dishes max in the feast.
It would be nice if I could find rice milk without emulsifiers and
such, but heck, I couldn't even find vegan wonton wrappers in this
town.

Ilsebet

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Stefan li Rous
<StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> 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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