Clove Apples I am sitting in the kitchen while my Aunt is preparing her apples to make her Apple Crisp for dessert.   My Aunt turns to me and says, “Have you heard of a “clove apple?”   I look over puzzled, “No, but I know what cloves are; one of the spices in making pumpkin pies.”   “Your Mom never told you about clove apples?”   Hmm, this is something my mother never mentioned.   My Aunt proceeds to tell me about clove apples and walks out of the kitchen to her pantry and brings back a small container of cloves and I take a whiff; strong smell.   My Aunt walks over to get an apple and says she would show me how one was made and then I would make my own clove apple.   That evening, as I awoke from my nap to have dinner, I found my Aunt sitting in the recliner, stabbing her apple with cloves. I was curious and looked up “clove apple.”   A clove apple is a common term for what is called a pomander.   Pomander comes from the French t...