Spices, Their Histories, Part 2
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Chinese Ginger
Green ginger root is that which has not undergone any process of cleaning, beyond freeing it from the earth adhering. Spent ginger is whole ginger that has once been used, then fixed up to resemble good ginger and salt hole or ground. China ginger is not imported in a dried state, the rhizomes being too tender and succulent to thoroughly dry for export. It is preserved or candied.
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