Nutmeg cake

Why was nutmeg pushed out of the mainstream of Western cooking? Once the wrinkled brown seeds with their curious swirled centres were so essential to fine dining that the fashionable English gentleman would carry a silver grater and a nutmeg in his pocket, but the fad waned as the spice became more attainable.

Don’t let vanilla and cinnamon steal all the glory in baking. A nutmeg cake (