Note 26 — Journaal
Reading edition
“Congee. In use all over India for the water in which rice has been boiled.... It is from the Tamil kanjī “boilings”.... “1563. They give him to drink the water squeezed out of rice with pepper and cummin (which they call canje “Garcia” (Hobson-Jobson, New ed. 1903, bl. 245).—“The most common drink, after what the clouds directly furnish, is the water in which rice has been boiled” (Griffis, Corea, 1905, bl. 267).