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Allspice

noun

Aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries. Synonyms: allspice tree, Pimenta dioica, pimento tree.

Deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States.

Ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves.

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"Allspice" Quotes from Famous Books

... many flavors. Don't be afraid of experimenting with them. Where you make one mistake you will be surprised to find the number of successful varieties you can produce. If you like a spicy flavor, try two or three cloves, or allspice, or bay leaves. All soups are improved by a dash of onion, unless it is the white soups, or purees from chicken, veal, fish, etc. In these celery may ...

— Recipes Tried and True • the Ladies' Aid Society

... of good four or five-year-old Southdown wether mutton, cut long in the bones; let it hang in mild weather, at least a week. Two days before you dress it, take allspice and black pepper, ground and pounded fine, a quarter of an ounce each, rub them together and then rub your mutton well with this mixture twice a day. When you dress it, wash off the spice with warm water, ...

— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... peaks of the Blue Mountains. It is a gorgeously vivid panorama, all in greens, gold, and vivid blues. Monte Diavolo is the only part of Jamaica where there are wild parrots; it is also the home of the allspice tree, or pimento, as it is called in the island. This curious tree cannot be raised from seed or cutting, neither can it be layered; it can only propagate itself in Nature's own fashion, and the seed must pass through the body of a bird before it will germinate. So it is fortunate, ...

— Here, There And Everywhere • Lord Frederic Hamilton

Words linked to "Allspice" : genus Calycanthus, Calycanthus occidentalis, strawberry bush, Calycanthus, Calycanthus floridus, Pimenta dioica, spicebush, Pimenta, shrub, genus Pimenta, bush, strawberry shrub, spice tree, sweet shrub, spice