Products tagged with 'clove'

Cloves are used in many kinds of dishes and pastries in the kitchen. Carnations, which were rarely grown and very valuable in the past, were given to each other as gifts in gold or silver vases by the emperors, and today they are consumed in the kitchen as whole and ground in the oven, fruit, vegetable and meat products.

Clove, tropical evergreen tree of the family Myrtaceae and its small reddish brown flower buds used as a spice. Cloves were important in the earliest spice trade and are believed to be indigenous to the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, of Indonesia. Strong of aroma and hot and pungent in taste, cloves are used to flavour many foods, particularly meats and bakery products; in Europe and the United States the spice is a characteristic flavouring in Christmas holiday fare, such as wassail and mincemeat.