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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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ilis said to yield the best crops and inJamaica thousands of acres of forestare annually destroyed by fire to pre-pare new ginger fields. Ginger ap-pears upon the market either whole orground. Unfortunately the ground ar-ticle is oftentimes adulterated; for in-stance, with sago, tapioca, potato,wheat, and rice starch, with cayennepepper, mustard, and other substances. Ginger has been an important com-mercial and household article eversince the first century of our era.Poets and prose writers of the past andpresent have praised ginger and themany preparations having ginger intheir composition, because of theiraromatic pungent taste and stimulatingeffect. The opening quotation fromShakespeare indicates the propertiesof ginger. That it was a highly-valuedspice during the time of Mandeville(1300-1372) is evident from a quota-tion from his travels. Be alle that contree growe the godegyngevere (ginger), and thereforethidre gon the Marchauntes for Spice-rye. Green ginger pickled in sugar was
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6 4 FROM KCEHLERS MEOICINAL-PFUNZEN GINGER. highly prized during the middle ages.There are a number of beverages whichcontain ginger. Gingerade is watercharged with carbonic acid gas andflavored with ginger, being almostidentical with ginger-pop. Ginger-beer is prepared by fermenting cream-ot-tartar, ginger, and sugar with yeastand water. Ginger-ale is supposed tobe identical with ginger-beer. Theseginger drinks are all refreshing, but Ibelieve my readers will agree thatthere is usually too much ginger pres-ent; the hot, burning sensation in themouth is not very pleasant. It maybe that the trouble lies in taking toomuch of the drink at a time. In my estimation ginger as used bythe baker is most appreciated and hereagain I believe my readers will agreewith me. Who has not heard of gin-ger-bread? This sweet cake flavoredwith ginger is not by any means of re-cent origin. The great English bardChaucer sang its praises long ago(1328-1400): They fette him first the sweete wyn,And mede eek i

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