Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer: A Golden Treasury of Classic Treats
by Jane Brocket
A nostalgic book seasoned with your favourite childhood recipes.
Caribbean Food Made Easy
by Levi Roots
A mouth-watering collection of Caribbean mother–used–to–make recipes. Contains a number of ginger-based recipes. Accompanies the BBC2 programme of the same name.
A Spoonful of Ginger: Irresistible, Health-giving Recipes from Asian Kitchens
by Nina Simonds
Inspirational Chinese recipes from a ground-breaking cookbook based on the Asian philosophy of food as health-giving.
Home Made Baking
by Catherine Atkinson, Valerie Barrett and Gail Wagman
A well presented and easy–to–read book containing cake, muffin, cookie and cupcake recipes. Features 12 ginger–based recipes including dark chocolate & ginger muffins. mmm…
The Everyday Chicken Cookbook: Traditional, Contemporary, Classic and Adventurous Idea for Chicken and Turkey, with Every Recipe Shown Step-by-step in Over 2000 Colour Photographs (The Every Day)
edited by Simona Hill
If you love ginger (and chicken) this is THE book for you. Over 60 of the 365+ recipes include ginger. It is well illustrated with clear & easy–to–follow instructions.
Food for Heroes: The Official Help for Heroes Cook Book
compiled by Squadron Leader John Pullen et al.
One ginger recipe (North African Lamb with Ginger and Chickpeas) but all for a very worthy cause.
In traditional Chinese culture, a new baby is introduced to family and friends at a Red Egg & Ginger party. Red is the Chinese colour for happiness, eggs represent new life and ginger assists in the mother's recuperation. The party is held when the baby is one month old.
’E swore it and ’e kept it and ’e keeps it to this day,’E ’as turned from gin to ginger and says ’e finds it pay,
You can search the whole o’ Sussex from ’ere to Brighton Town,
And you wouldn’t find a better man than Jeremiah Brown.
