{"id":3569,"date":"2023-02-15T13:06:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T12:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:14:58","slug":"cloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/cloves\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is it?<\/strong> Cloves are the dried, almost fully grown flower buds of the clove tree. They have a strong spicy smell and taste, and become overpowering quite quickly &#8211; but make fora great seasoning! The spice goes well with stews, game, herbal drinks and red cabbage. In Dutch cuisine, ground cloves are also used in biscuits and cakes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip!<\/strong> Don&#8217;t lose your cloves during cooking by putting them in a tea infuser or sticking them in a piece of orange peel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Food fact: <\/strong>A Chinese emperor is said to have forced his officials to chew cloves before coming for an audience, because of their to bad breath.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recipe\u00a0Chai latte with orange and cloves<\/strong><br \/>\nIn a mortar, grind 1 tsp cloves and a few black peppercorns into a powder, then mix with cinnamon powder and ginger powder. Heat the spice mix with 800 ml milk on a low fire. Grate the zest of one orange and add half to the milk. Let 2 bags of black tea steep for 5 minutes. Strain the chai when pouring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it? Cloves are the dried, almost fully grown flower buds of the clove tree. They have a strong spicy smell and taste, and become overpowering quite quickly &#8211; but make fora great seasoning! The spice goes well with stews, game, herbal drinks and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smaakmakers-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4667,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions\/4667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}