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3ULYDWH DQG %XVLQHVV )XQFWLRQV FDWHUHG IRU 3OHDVH FDOO O\QQ IRU PRUH GHWDLOV Cloves are familiar to us all as part of the warming scent of mulled wine and Christmas food. Some associations are not quite so pleasant though; clove oil is used in the dental surgery as an antiseptic and gentle local anaesthetic. Cloves are highly aromatic dried flower buds which are pink when first picked and turn dark brown after being dried. The word clove comes from the Latin word clavus meaning nail, which is precisely what the clove looks like. Culinary uses include studding hams with cloves, adding them to apple pies and lentil soup and flavouring game dishes. The pungent flavour can be overpowering, so use sparingly. Cloves are used in curry powders and are also one of the ingredients in Worcestershire sauce. Cloves are best bought and used whole as the ground spice loses flavour very quickly. They are too hard to grind at home although a coffee grinder will do the trick. During Tudor times pomanders were made by sticking cloves into an orange and carried to ward off illnesses and bad smells. We still make such pomanders today, although we know they don’t actually ward off the plague. Cloves do, however, have many medicinal uses which are too numerous to mention here. Traditional lore claims that sucking cloves prevents the desire to drink alcohol.
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