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“Never again will I eat of cumin ragout without washing my hands forty times with potash and forty times with galangale and forty times with soap!”
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Analogous pastes used in the regional cuisine of Bali are called jangkap; see lesser galangale for an example.
ramenNation: shocking thought for the day « raincoaster 2007
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By mass, they mostly consist of onions, but their taste is usually dominated by chiles and garlic; further common ingredients are lemon grass, greater galangale, ginger and Indonesian bay-leaves.
ramenNation: shocking thought for the day « raincoaster 2007
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The flower-buds of some furnish cloves and cassia buds; the roots supply ginger, galangale, turmeric, and ginseng.
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But the pot must have two pipes but no worm; and if some reliable people should not be coming, would Mr. Ritter still be so good as to get it to me here; also four pounds worth of spice, such as ginger, pepper, safron, nutmegs, galangale, cloves, each according to the proportion of the money?
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Thereupon I swooned away, and she sprinkled some powder of healing herbs upon the stumps and when the blood was stanched, I said, "Never again will I eat of cumin ragout without washing my hands forty times with potash and forty times with galangale and forty times with soap!"
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The tummu (Costus arabicus) and lampuyang (Amomum zerumbet) are found both in the wild and cultivated state, being used medicinally; as is also the galangale (Kaempferia galanga).
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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There she opened the chest which she had brought from Ghanim's house and, taking out some of the diners, gave them to the Syndic saying, "Buy with this money for each of them four complete suits of the finest stuffs and twenty kerchiefs, and else beside of whatsoever they require;" after which she carried all three to the baths and had them washed and bathed and made ready for them consommés, and galangale-water and cider against their coming out.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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` 'If so it be, "he replied," and needs must I eat of it, I will not do so except I wash my hand forty times with soap, forty times with potash and forty times with galangale, [FN#555] the total being one hundred and twenty washings. "
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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