[Sca-cooks] Kiri's cherry pottage
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Wed Mar 31 09:18:09 PDT 2010
It seems to be both the flower and the spice.
OED under the entry clove-gillyflower
The spice clove n.2 1. Obs.
a1225 Ancr. R. 370 Ne makeden heo neuer strence of gingiuere ne of
gedewal, ne of clou de gilofre. c1386 CHAUCER Sir Thopas 51 And many a
clow gilofre And notemuge to put in ale.
c1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 26 With cloves of gelofer hit broche [th]ou
shalle.
2. A clove-scented species of Pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus), the
original of the carnation and other cultivated double forms.
1538 TURNER Libellus s.v. Betonica, Herba, quam uernacula lingua
uocamus a Gelofer, aut a Clowgelofer aut an Incarnacyon.
1578 LYTE Dodoens II. vii. 154 The Cloue gillofer..The floures
grow..out of long round smooth huskes and dented or toothed aboue like
the spice called cloaues..[they] do all smell almost like Cloues.
Johnnae
On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Devra at aol.com wrote:
> clove gilofre
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