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Nutmeg & Mace
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By Eleanor Ford
Published 2024
Why love it
Nutmeg completes a custard tart as it cuts through sweetness with its musky spiciness, transforming cloying to elegance. Mace, the aril from the same plant, has a similar flavour profile but with less astringency.
Match with
Bean: milk chocolate
Nut: walnut, hazelnut
Sweet fruit: apple, pear
Spice & herb: pepper, saffron, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, clove
Sweet: maple syrup, caramel, treacle, palm sugar, coconut sugar
Extract the flavour
A dichotomy: nutmeg is both potent yet fleeting. Grind it early and the flavour is gone. The kernels should always be stored whole and grated towards the end of cooking to harness the intensity that is there - before it isn’t.
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