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Allspice  n.  The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.






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"Allspice" Quotes from Famous Books



... Oliver, and the Archbishop Turpine; Their bodies bids open before his eyes. And all their hearts in silken veils to wind, And set them in coffers of marble white; After, they take the bodies of those knights, Each of the three is wrapped in a deer's hide; They're washen well in allspice and in wine. The King commands Tedbalt and Gebuin, Marquis Otun, Milun the count besides: Along the road in three wagons to drive. They're covered well with ...
— The Song of Roland • Anonymous

... smell in the house in the summer when there are preserves, or sweet pickles, or jam, or whatever it is, simmering on the stove. No matter where you are, up in the garret or down cellar, it's cinnamon, and allspice, and cloves, and every sort of sugary odour. Now, that gets me ...
— The Friendly Road - New Adventures in Contentment • (AKA David Grayson) Ray Stannard Baker

... has been boiled and drained add the following sauce: Take equal quantities of water in which the fish was boiled and vinegar. Add a few pepper corns, a little mace, a very little allspice; boil for a few minutes and pour over ...
— 365 Luncheon Dishes - A Luncheon Dish for Every Day in the Year • Anonymous

... can of tomatoes; strain and put it on the stove again; brown flour enough to thicken it to the consistence of cream; add a lemon or two (sliced very thin and boiled a few minutes in water); one teaspoonful each of ground cloves; cinnamon and allspice. Just before you wish to serve add the hard boiled yolk of an egg for each person; chop the whites and ...
— Stevenson Memorial Cook Book • Various

... country causes the choice alimentary produces to be brought to this "lakoni." There were quantities of the rice which returns a hundred per cent., of the maize, which, in three crops in eight months, produces two hundred per cent., the sesamum, the pepper of Ouroua, stronger than the Cayenne, allspice, tapioca, ...
— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne



Words linked to "Allspice" :   California allspice, Pimenta dioica, allspice tree, Calycanthus, spice, Japan allspice, Calycanthus occidentalis, Carolina allspice, strawberry bush, sweet shrub, Calycanthus floridus, spicebush, Pimenta, pimento tree, strawberry shrub, spice tree, genus Pimenta, Japanese allspice, shrub



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