On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 08:32:36 -0500, Julia Altshuler
> wrote:

>Is there ginger in gingerale? Was there ever?
>
>
>I'm not sure where this tradition got started, but in my family we've
>always given gingerale to people with respiratory ailments, had it on
>hand as a cocktail mixer, but drank it at no other time. I
understand
>that fresh or dried ginger is supposed to have some good effect for
>helping people with a little asthma or a bad cold breathe better.
>
>
>I remember being a little girl when friends of my parents brought
them
>an unusual gift of a fancy decorated pot with a pale substance in it.
>My parents never cooked with much in the way of spices so I wasn't
>familiar with it, but my father told me to smell it. I did, thought
for

snipped..
That ceramic "pot" is called a Ginger Jar and had a beautiful base
and a matching small cap-type top that was often tied with raffia.
They are Chinese I believe and quite valuable. My grandmother had a
number of them.

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