How to Use Cloves
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Benefits of Cloves
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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
- Ihibited oxidative stress
- Reduced microbial growth
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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.
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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.
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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.
- 4 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!
- 5 Finished.