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Ingo Holland – Cloves – Altes Gewürzamt 

Ingo Holland's cloves come from Sri Lanka. Cloves are one of the most versatile and well-known spices, used in cuisines on all continents. Cloves pair well with apples, oranges, carrots, pumpkin, onions, red cabbage, beetroot, ham, pork, and chocolate. They are also suitable for glazing cured pork such as ham or Schäufele. When using cloves, you can either put them in a tea bag with other spices or stud them into an onion, making it easy to fish them out of the sauce after cooking. 

Cloves – from Indonesia

Cloves are the dried flower buds of the clove tree (Syzygium aromaticum), which botanically belongs to the myrtle family. Cloves have been used in Europe since the early Middle Ages, primarily in sausages and meat dishes, but also in red cabbage. For a long time, the Dutch held a monopoly on the clove trade. They brought the spice, which resembles small nails, from the Moluccas Islands, part of Indonesia and also known as the Spice Islands, to Amsterdam. Even today, the best quality still comes from the Moluccas, Madagascar, or Zanzibar.

Cloves contain up to 15% essential oils, which is why they smell so intensely and should be used sparingly. The most important active ingredient in cloves is eugenol, which is also found in cinnamon, and is said to have a slightly numbing effect, which is why chewing cloves is supposed to help with toothache.

Altes Gewürzamt – Ingo Holland Spices without Compromise

Ingo Holland wants to inspire cooking enthusiasts with his particularly intense spices from "Altes Gewürzamt" and encourage creative ideas. He makes no compromises when it comes to the quality of his ingredients, spices, pepper, herbs, and salts. His single spices, such as cloves, are of high quality. This makes the spices particularly intense and very economical. Be brave and try them, but beware: like all spices from Ingo Holland Altes Gewürzamt, the cloves are intensely flavored, so you can use them sparingly. Cloves best preserve their spicy aromas in the green Altes Gewürzamt spice tin.