Application: Add 1 or 2 whole leaves to slow-cooking meals like casseroles, stews, soups, marinades, and pasta sauces to release unique flavor during cooking process. Used also in steam vegetables, fish, seafood, and chicken. Goes well with allspice, basil, cardamom, chiles, cloves, fennel, ginger, garlic, onion, shallot, lemon, orange, marjoram, oregano, paprika, parsley, chervil, black pepper, rosemary, savory, sage, and thyme.