notbob wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On 2017-06-22, cshenk > wrote:
>
> > You couldn't taste the ham, just cloves.
>
> I always cut recipe recommendations for clove amounts by at least one
> third. Usually more like one-half. Even in my DIY five-spice-blend
> (star anise, fennel seed, cinnamon, szechuan ppr, cloves) I either dbl
> all the other ingredients or cut cloves by 50%. Clove is more than
> jes savory, it's overwhelming. Make that downright brutal!
>
> nb

Agreed. I don't have any clove other than in mixes and if they use too
much, I reverse engineer them to reduce the clove. Its not that I
don't like it, it's that some like it a lot more than me so tends to be
over-powering.

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