Artifact: Clove
Materials: Clove
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Collection: Henna via Wikimedia Commons
License: CC BY-SA 1.0
Ledger Entry: Clove
Department: Grocery
Customer: Hannah Janey
Ledger Page: 129
Imported From: Originally from Southeast Asia
Product Description
Cloves became a common spice in the eighteenth-century British world. Cloves were used in spice mixtures for pickles, in cake recopies, and added to meat dishes.
Citation: Katharine E. Harbury, Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004); Andrew F. Smith, ed., The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Historical Price: 14 pence per ounce; Modern USD: $13.1
Product Variations
The databases record five purchases of cloves. One purchase was for half of an ounce and the others were all for one ounce. These ranged in price from twelve pence for half an ounce to eighteen pence for one ounce.
