I also eat crystallized ginger like candy, and it's great for motion sickness instead of dramamine. I always add half a cup or so of chopped crystallized ginger to my Grandma's old molasses cookie recipe too, I love the stuff. Bonnie, jam is mostly all fruit and sugar, with some pectin. I water bath all of my jam recipes for 10 minutes, even the old ones that just called for open kettle canning or paraffin. I don't get seal failures with BWB the way Grandma did with paraffin or open kettle type recipes. Even Grandma switched to BWB and never looked back, she hated having the seal failures after all the work and ingredients that went into her jam. Oh, and thanks for the recipe, it sounds awesome and would be great in those thumbprint cookies with the jam in the middle. Yum..... Annie

Thank you both soooo much. I haven't checked out the ginger thread yet but the Hawaiian stir fry sounds very good. I've not tried ginger in my tea yet but am going to try it today. I know ginger is very good for you so thanks to Georgy I'll be healthy at least. Will post my Chicken Country Captain on the March thread. It was very good.

Thanks, lindac. I think what I had was fresh. It was Reed's, which I think is supposed to be a very good brand. It didn't seem to be dried at all. And yes, it was VERY flavorful! Before baking, that is. I may try candying some myself, To see if that might have been the problem. Rusty

Sue I store mine in a plastic bag in the freezer. I also use it once or twice a year (but I do like to eat it like candy sometimes and its good if your stomach is upset). Unfortunately, today when I went into the freezer to take it out (for my sweet potatoes tomorrow) I found that I'm out of it and my store didn't have any and I just didn't feel like driving way over to the other store to see if they had it. Darn it! Now I have to decide on something else to do with the sweet potatoes.