Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Cook's Guide entry for Allspice along with all the recipes employing Allspice presented on this site, with 524 recipes in total.

This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Allspice recipes added to this site.

These recipes, all contain Allspice as a major wild food ingredient.

Allspice (also known as Jamaica pepper, Myrtle pepper, pimento, or newspice) is a Caribbean spice discovered by Christopher Columbus during his second voyage of 1493–1496 CE. The spice itself is the dried unripe fruit of the Pimenta dioica plant which is a small shrubby tree, quite similar to the bay laurel in size and form. It grows readily in the tropics and adapts well to container growth where it can be kept as a houseplant. The English name 'allspice' is derived from the English belief that this spice combined the flavour of several spices: most notable cloves, pepper, cinnamon and nutmeg (in essence all the economically important spices of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is an aromatic spice with a taste similar to a combination of cinnamon and cloves, but hotter and more peppery.



As might be expected allspice is an important ingredient of Carribean cuisine where it is an important component of Jerk seasoning. It s also an ingredient in commercial sausage preparations and in many curry powders and barbecue sauces. It is also a common ingredient of British cooking where it is often used to lift the flavour of many dishes (especially cakes).