Warming Spices
Sweet, savory, and warming, these holiday spices are the flavors of the season. Whether cooking or baking the delicious aroma will add warm comfort to your home.
Cinnamon
Harvested from the inner bark of the genus Cinnamomum tree, this holiday hero is one of the most versatile spices in kitchens around the word. It is prominetly used in baked goods such as cookies, cakes, and pies. Cinnamon especially enhances the flavors of pumpkin, apple and pear and on the savory side is often used in curries.
Nutmeg
Nutmeg spice is made by grinding the seed of the fragrant nutmeg tree into a powder. It has a distinctive pungent fragrance and a warm slightly sweet taste. Nutmeg is used to flavor many kinds of baked goods, confections, puddings, potatoes, meats, sausages, sauces, vegetables, and holiday beverages such as eggnog.
Ginger
While the most common form of ginger is found to be dried, there's a wide variety of forms to choose from to help spice up your holidays! The warming, zingy flavor of ginger is famously used in cookies and cakes. It is
used around the world in traditional Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Scandinavian dishes.
Allspice
Allspice, also known as Jamaican pepper, is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a tree native to Mexico and Central America, but is now cultivated in many warm parts of the world. The name allspice was coined as early as 1621 by the English, who valued it as a spice that combined the flavors of cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove. Today, allspice is usually added at the beginning of cooking or baking to season meat, soup, stew and vegetables. It can also be used in any baked goods where cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves are found.
Clove
Clove is the dried unopened bud of the flower of an evergreen tree. It's commonly used as a spice, flavoring or fragrance in consumer products, such as toothpaste, soaps, or cosmetics, and also herbal remedies. Clove is a key component in holiday baking when paired with pumpkin. Clove also pairs well with cinnamon, allspice, vanilla, red wine, basil, onion, citrus peel, star anise, and peppercorns.