stem ginger

Add the frozen winter fruit, the stem ginger, and the mixed spice.

She made her purchases carefully, forcing herself to consider the quality of meat, to search out some stem ginger.

Add the ginger wine and, finally, the stem ginger, mixing it in very thoroughly.

Gently stir in the roughly chopped stem ginger.

Bread and butter pudding made with home made stem ginger wholemeal bread.

Also appealingly old-fashioned is the green jar from Williams-Sonoma that holds stem ginger in syrup.

Stem ginger, yes.

Add the almonds, candied peel, stem ginger, and sour cherries and mix well until combined.

But my favourite chocolate thing of all time still remains the gloriously old fashioned dark chocolate coated stem ginger.

Vary the recipe as you wish - add cardamom, black pepper, anise, slivers of stem ginger or whatever to the mix.

This basic recipe can be adapted by adding grated lemon or orange rind, or four pieces of chopped stem ginger just before freezing.

Add one tablespoon of chopped stem ginger or the finely grated zest of a lemon or lime to vary the recipe.

Use any left over brandy butter on muffins or as a sponge sandwich filling with added chopped stem ginger or delicious on crumpets.

Young ginger can also be preserved in sugar syrup or crystallised and rolled in sugar - in both cases it is then known as stem ginger.

You can buy good-quality packets or tins of individual shortbread biscuits, either plain or with additions such as chocolate chips or stem ginger pieces.

Mix 50g/2oz creamy goat's cheese with one teaspoon of chopped stem ginger, 25g/1oz chopped pistachios and a little grated nutmeg.

Serve with cinnamon custard or a sauce made by warming together some treacle and golden syrup with just a squeeze of lemon and a dash of syrup from the jar of stem ginger.

White stilton with stem ginger, at about £2.60 a pound, is ideal for dessert or cheese cake filling, while white cheddar with mango chutney, at about £2.55 a pound, makes tangy sandwiches.

But the quarts of poached pears suspended in sweet vinegar with stem ginger and cinnamon and the bottles of hard-boiled eggs floating amid rosemary branches in mustard vinegar were, we decided, the marché's masterworks.

In Britain there are marrons glaces (sugary chestnuts) and stem ginger in syrup - an ancient sweet and one identical to the earliest preserved sweetmeats of fruit and roots that arrived in northern Europe from the Middle East in the 11th century.

We like Josceline's paler crumb studded with jewel-coloured bits - as well as bog-standard orange and lemon peel, she uses crystallised pineapple (lurid yellow) and stem ginger like bits of broken butterscotch, and diamond-shaped lozenges of candied angelica in that unnaturally brilliant emerald green.