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Cloves
Cloves are the dried flower buds of a tropical tree, delivering an intensely warm, sweet-spicy aroma used sparingly in cocktails. They are often studded into citrus garnish or added whole to hot drinks. A little goes a long way given their potency.
warmspicyintensesweet-aromatic
Common uses
- studded into citrus garnish for aroma
- spice note in hot or mulled drinks
Buying & storage
Months once opened: Keeps for months once opened, but it does change. Nothing urgent; worth finishing within a season.
Storage: store whole cloves in a sealed container away from light; they lose potency once ground
Recipes
Cocktails containing this ingredient
Stand-in
Where cloves is a recommended substitute
Recipes that name it as a swap for something else, with what it replaces.
- Three Dots and a Dashin place of allspice dram (pimento dram)
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