How to Use Cloves

• Use cloves to add a warm, spicy flavor to dishes. Add cloves to apple and pumpkin pies, relishes, chutneys, and pickles, or to rubs on meat.
• Or, mix cloves into drinks. Make a spicy chai tea, mead, cider, or even hot chocolate.
• Cloves can also be used in your home to get rid of flies, remove mothball smells, and add a pleasant scent to drawer liners.

Benefits of Cloves

Cloves have many potential health benefits. Research shows that consuming cloves may be associated with a variety of health benefits, including: Improvement of symptoms related to diabetes Reduced inflammation Inhibited oxidative stress Reduced microbial growth

Using Cloves

Use cloves to flavour food. Cloves have a strong, spicy flavour with a warm to hot taste. A very little goes a long way in food. Some examples of using cloves in food include: Fruit pies. Typically, they are added to apple pies and they can also be added to other fruit pies that need a warm, spicy flavour. Relishes, chutneys, and pickles. Cloves make a spicy addition to many of these condiments. Poke them into a ham. Add crushed or ground cloves to cakes and desserts requiring a warm, spicy flavour. Use cloves in Indian cuisine. Cloves are a popular addition to many curry dishes and to biryani. Make coffee figs with cloves. Use them with pumpkin and squash dishes; the cloves complement the flavours of these fruit vegetables well.

Make drinks with cloves. Cloves make a tasty addition to various winter style drinks such as mulled wine and warm cider. You might also like to try: Orange, cinnamon and clove mead Hot spiced cranberry cider Wassail Spiced tea A little powdered cloves with 70% dark chocolate and heavy cream. Add hot milk or water and stir well.

Use cloves in the household. There are numerous uses for cloves in the household, from shooing away pests, to creating a lovely fragrance in the home. Some ideas for use include: Get rid of your house flies using cloves Make a clove pomander Drawer liners with clove oil Removing the odour of mothballs with cloves.

Use cloves to help stop the pain from a toothache temporarily. Bite on a few cloves before you can get to the dentist, to alleviate pain. Be sure not to swallow them!

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