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Making pickled cucumbers aka pickles.
The "clove" used as a spice (in pickling, etc.) is the dried flower bud of a tropical tree.
No. Allspice is the same as pimentoberry. The ground spice is used in both savory and sweet dishes. Pickling spice is a blend of different spices, which can include allspice.
You will find Tumeric Spice at Sweetbay...or at any grocery store near you.
I'd check out the spice section of a grocery store (alum is used for some pickling brines), or you could try a drug store. If you can get non-finely powdered alum, you can pulverize it to a fine powder yourself using a mortal and pestle.
Pickling lime used to be an accepted method of adding crispness to pickled cucumbers. The USDA no longer recommends use of pickling lime. Pickling lime is alkaline and must all be washed off of the cucumbers or it can result in a less acidic pickling solution. It the pickling solution is not acidic enough it can allow botulism an environment in which to grow. Botulism cases have been linked to this situation and this is the reason it is no longer recommended.
pickling
Acid pickling means pickle the acid.
He wanted to find the Spice Islands
find spice for his king
yes. it was the spice islands