Syzygium Armaticum Manisé

A spice also known as clove or Cenkeh in Moluccan, you can see them drying in the sun along the road on pulau Ambon, and other Moluccan Islands. It is here were it all started, the beautiful cute and georgous smellicous spice was traded by Moluccans through Sri Lanka and Alexandria untill the Portuguese got tempted and closed the trade. It then only got traded by the Portugeuse in Lisboa and Antwerp.  The trade later became dominated by the Dutch in the seventeenth century. In Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, cloves were worth at least their weight in gold, due to the high price of importing them.

Now you can find it how wonderful in your own cupboard were you can use it for you delicious cupcakes, Dutch Speculaas, Stews, Indonesian/Indian and other exotic cuisines. And not to forget for you smokers out there it's even possible to smoke it, it's called Kretek in the Moluccas. Cloves also reportedly imparts spiritual uplifting, warming and stimulation benefits. Why for example it's is smelled within the Jewish tradition during Havdalah (closing Shabbath) to soften the nostalgia when Sabbath ends. Besides cloves are also used as a medicine, chewing on the flower buds it will ease toothache pain and even freshen your breath. While drinking tea from cloves it will calm your stomach. But when pregnant it is advised to avoid the cute spice.......