On Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 6:47:08 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> As I type this, I am eating one of the best bean with bacon soups I've ever
> had. I had to do a double take at the recipe because it called for 1/8 of a
> teaspoon of powdered cloves. The recipe has a pound of dried navy beans. I
> have never added cloves to soup before, but I tried it. In fact towards the
> end, I tried the soup and decided to add even a little more. I also added
> extra celery, including the leaves, mainly to use up some celery. And I
> added two diced carrots. Recipe called for a pound of bacon. That seemed
> like too much so I added a lot less. I didn't really count but perhaps 12
> strips.
>
> Anyhoo... Ever added cloves to bean soup? Yummy!

When I was a young boy, I got it in my mind that cloves would go good in stew so I made beef stew seasoned with cloves. It tasted pretty much the way that I had it in my brainpan but my mom suggested that it was odd. It must have been pretty bad if my mom said a discouraging word about it so I never did it again. OTOH, I thought it was okay.