Cloves

Cloves are renowned for providing their uniquely warm, sweet and aromatic taste to ginger bread, pumpkin pie and rice. Cloves are the unopened pink flower buds of the evergreen clove tree. The buds are picked by hand when they are pink and dried until they turn brown in color. Cloves are about 1/2-inch long and 1/4-inch in diameter and with their tapered stem, they resemble tiny nails.