Kate Humble on a journey around the spice islands
of Indonesia. The original home of these two spices, there is nutmeg
“pala” and clove “tembakau”. In the program we see examples of
fruit being cut open when it has been picked early. We see the outer red skin
of the nut being removed and dried to create mace “bunga pala”.
The inner skin or black shell of the nut is then removed and discarded and what
is left is the hard brown "nut" we call nutmeg. The outside of the
nutmeg is said, can be used as, jam, candy and syrup.
Clove, are told that the best cloves are pink and not yet
opened. A mixture of long poles, rope pulling and tree climbing are used so the
pickers can collect the clusters of buds from all over the trees. Back on the
ground the individual cloves are snapped off from the bud cluster and they are
sun dried in the streets. The rest of the bud cluster (stalks and a few small
young leaves) are used as an additive to Tobacco, to make a Herbal cigarette.
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