790. Spezie Fini

Allspice

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

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If you really want to use fine good quality spices in your cooking, here is the recipe.

Ingredients

  • 2 nutmeg kernels
  • 50 grams (about 1-⅔ ounces) of Ceylon cinnamon, also known as “queen” cinnamon<

Method

You will not improve on this mixture by adding other spices (except for mace, which is the ground outer covering of the nutmeg seed, and is excellent). Also, do not imitate the grocers who use cinnamon from Goa instead of Ceylon cinnamon and throw in handfuls of coriander seeds to increase the volume with a cheap ingredient.

Crush everything together in a bronze mortar, pass the spices