[Sca-cooks] Kiri's cherry pottage

[Johnna Holloway]

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