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Ginger ale...what to do with the used ginger?

 
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Hey fellow permies, when you make ginger ale...what do you do with the left over ginger? Do you just add it to the next batch or chuck it?

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Okay, don't laugh, I eat it. Just plain. I like it.  I do max out, though, and compost the rest.  But I think one could save the pulp up and make gingerbread with it?

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Kim Goodwin wrote:Okay, don't laugh, I eat it. Just plain. I like it.  I do max out, though, and compost the rest.  But I think one could save the pulp up and make gingerbread with it?



Heck, I won't laugh...that sounds delicious! Also gingerbread Yum! I bet we will find tons of uses for it!

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We eat a lot of pumpkin/apple quickbread muffins - they are our convenience food - and when I used to keep a ginger bug I'd add the spent ginger to the quickbread. It's delicious. Also serves well in a curry, stir fry, or tea! Freezing it in icecube trays works well to preserve. But I reckon you could also dehydrate it and get a useful product that way.
 
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I love just eating ginger. But I do have a question... How do you make the ginger ale? Have never tried making my own but would love to.
 
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If you put lots of chopped ginger into sugar and leave for 6 - 12 months, the ginger will become glacé.  Take the ginger out and air dry it, then when dry, not dehydrated bottle to use as eating ginger, ginger for cakes and candies.  The sugar should be liquid/ semi liquid and full of ginger flavour for making drinks and as a base for gingerbread etc.  We did the same some time ago with pineapple - making pineapple vodka.  With a little soda and ice, it is a fabulous thirst quencher after a hot day.

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Vickey McDonald wrote:How do you make the ginger ale? Have never tried making my own but would love to.



This thread will explain:

https://permies.com/t/2145/kitchen/Lacto-Fermented-Soda-Ginger-Ale

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Anne Miller wrote:

Vickey McDonald wrote:How do you make the ginger ale? Have never tried making my own but would love to.



This thread will explain:

https://permies.com/t/2145/kitchen/Lacto-Fermented-Soda-Ginger-Ale



Aaahhhh, for a sip of Ginger Ale from the 50's would be awesome.
Is that made from the site you gave anywhere near that mellowed out taste of the 50's Ginger Ale?

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Jesse, I don't know if I ever had Ginger Ale from the '50s.

Is anything made these days that compare with things made in the '50s other than Mom's cooking?

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I use the ginger any way I would use fresh ginger. And it lasts a lot longer in the fridge than fresh.

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I hated wasting all that ginger, so I started slicing my ginger super thin when I do my ginger bug, then when I’m finished, I put it in a pan with 1/4 cup of the liquid and half a cup of sugar, boil to make syrup that I pour in my ginger ale and then spread the ginger out on wax paper to dry a bit, then roll in sugar for ginger candy. It’s works out beautifully delicious.
 
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I make a simple syrup using ginger slices to flavor my gingerale or kefir. I remove the ginger slices and sugar them for crystalized ginger for eating. The syrup can be used for cooking as well. It stores well in the fridge.

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