and he thinks green ginger must have been candied or crystallized

[walkitout]

Rather than meaning what it clearly means, because _he_ can't figure out how it got to Europe doesn't mean it couldn't be done. R. and I are currently arguing about possible routes. He seems worried about freezing on a water route south of the Cape of Good Hope and wonders what would happen if you took it across a desert. Me, I'm not so concerned; those people were clever, and there was a lot of money riding on it.

ETA: According to this source:

http://www.gallowglass.org/jadwiga/herbs/Easternspice.html

People were sprouting it by the end of the 16th century.

BUT this is a 1542 recipe for making candied ginger called green ginger:

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/Cndied-Ginger-art.rtf

Who the f* knows. Probably context dependent.

ETAYA: By 1845, definitively after our period, green ginger is the first ingredient in making candied ginger:

http://www.theoldfoodie.com/2006/04/lord-mayors-easter.html

Comments

[volkhvoi.livejournal.com]

Routes? This is easy; ships on oceans, and boats on rivers, are cheaper than hauling by land. And faster. The headaches (at sea) are currents, navigation and piracy, not ice (and if ice is, then cold cargo is not your biggest problem).

I can't get your second website to work.

this might work

[(Anonymous)]

The second website is a .rtf file. Here's a pointer to a cached quick view:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yhru79o