CLOVE

Food and Other Uses. Cloves are sweet and pungent, with a rating of five out of ten on the hotness scale. Cloves are widely used in baked goods, and especially noted in baking. They are also used in pickling and recipes such as spiced . Czech, Sri Lankan, and French cuisines characteristically use cloves, and clove oil is one of the ingredients in synthetic and in perfumes.

Cloves are the dried flower buds of a 15 to 30 foot (4.6 to 9.1 meter) evergreen with red and white blossoms