Recipe - Crystallized Ginger

1 cup Peeled ginger root; cut or sliced up
thinly
1 cup Water
One half cup Maple syrup (or substitute
sugar as above)

Date: 23 May 1996 19:44:24 EST

From: Bubba.Leroy@FLYING.NET
The following is my grandmother's recipe for candied ginger. You can
substitute corn syrup for the maple or use granulated sugar one to one with
the water. This is great chopped and sprinkled over ice cream or cake. I
have also added chopped scotch bonnet peppers or scotch bonnet powder for
use in stirfry dishes and substituting sugar. Here is what you need.

Bring ingredients to a boil iover medhigh heat in a sauce pan. Add water
first if substituting sugar to prevent dry spots in the sugar. Simmer
until liquid has completly evaporaterabout 25 30 minutesstir mixture
last 10 minutes to prevent scorching. Spread pieces of ginger evenly on a
nonstick cookie sheet and place in a 200 degree oven for about 2 hours or
until all the syrup is absorbed and pieces of ginger snap when broken. Hope
this helps, Bubba. P.S. hows about a post re: what you are going to do with
the ginger?

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