Cloves

for marinades and sauces, sausage and meat dishes, gingerbread, red cabbage, punch, Christmas cookies, curry, chutneys, stews, apple compote, vegetable dishes.
Cloves are often used in the kitchen for seasoning marinades, sauces, sausages, meat and fish dishes and cloves are known for their use in seasoning gingerbread or red cabbage. When cloves are used for punch, soups or stock, cloves are added to the ingredients as a whole and removed at the end of the cooking time. When ground, cloves are often found in Christmas cookies or curry.