Stem ginger?

[Gonloopy]

I am looking for a good stem ginger concentrate. I can find gingerbreads easy enough, but that's not what I'm after. I want the stuff that you often find in a syrup around Christmas time...

Thoughts anyone?

 

[Jugg1es]

Tried making yourself? Stem ginger is really strong, if you blitz it and soak in warm pg you should get a good flavoured base.

 

[askegi]

Chefs vapour do a ginger concentrate if that's any help.

 

[remnant]

I've made a root ginger concentrate which came out pretty well (bashed up a quantity of fresh root, warmed in PG and steeped for a few days, then strained through a coffee filter). I expect you could do similar with the stems, although with green source material you would need to be careful not to over-steep it: green vegetable matter will develop an unpleasant cabbage taste if it's left steeping too long - which would be more than 3 or 4 days.

I was pretty happy with the strength of mine after the first time, but if you wanted it stronger, bash up a second batch of ginger and repeat the process using the previous batch in place of fresh PG. (Had to do that with some dried mint one time - it was fine after the second steeping, but there's a significant reduction of the final volume, due to the fraction of liquid that will not be persuaded out of the soggy mass of ginger pulp and the filter paper).