This is delicious with grilled fish or meat or served as an accompaniment to another stir-fry ... Alternatively, omit the ginger and briefly fry dried yellow mustard seeds with the garlic.
Heat the rest gently in a pan with butter and syrup. Stir together flour and ground ginger in a bowl. Take pan off heat, add stem ginger, then stir the syrup into the flour. Pinch off walnut-sized ...
Trim off and discard the tough ends from the garlic scapes (they will be yellow-green and will feel hard, rather than bendable like the rest of the stem ... add the ginger and stir-fry for ...