We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about the fact that capers are actually flower buds – hand-picked, dried, salted, and sometimes brined before consumption. The sooner these are picked, the smaller and tastier the caper.
And apparently it’s not the only spice made from neither a fruit nor a vegetable.
Yup – the humble clove is another flower part, too.
What are cloves made from?
They’re the dried flower buds and (sometimes) stems of the clove tree, which are evergreen members of the myrtle tree family. These are native to Indonesia but also grow in other tropical locations, like Zanzibar, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania.
This makes them “an unusual spice because they are dried flower buds while most spices are either fruit/seeds (nutmeg, star anise etc.) or vegetative parts such as stems (ginger, turmeric, cinnamon) and leaves (kaffir lime),” the Read Entire Article
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