[Sca-cooks] Galingale (was Thermomix is the "flying car")
David Friedman
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
Sun May 13 19:25:26 PDT 2012
On 5/12/12 9:47 PM, Stefan li Rous wrote:
> I was quite happy to be able to find already powdered galengale. I
> don't think my mortar and pestles (I now have several, a six inch
> marble, a smaller ceramic one and I thought another) would win against
> the rather hard wood chunks of galengale I had at one point.
>
I used to describe Galingale as a root that breaks spice grinders.
On the other hand, one can sometimes get the fresh rather than dried
root, and it's rather like ginger in texture.
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