Allspice

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Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento, is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, 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 flavours of cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove.

Affinities

Beans
Beef
Beets
Bread
Cabbage
Cakes
Carrots
Chicken
Chickpeas
Chili Peppers
Cinnamon
Cloves
Cookies
Coriander
Currants
Curry
Eggplant
Fish
Game
Game Birds
Garlic
Ginger
Goat
Grains
Ham
Herring, Pickled
Ketchup
Lamb
Mace
Meats
Mushrooms
Mustard
Nutmeg
Nuts
Onions
Pepper, Black
Pies
Pineapple
Pork
Pumpkin
Rabbit
Rice
Rosemary
Sauerkraut
Sausages
Soups
Spinach
Squash, Winter
Sweet Potatoes
Thyme
Tomatoes
Turnips
Vegetables