Nutmeg is used in sweet baking, besides being a usual ingredient in Northern European sausage and stew recipes. Whole Nutmeg is used for delicious cream covered dishes like creamed spinach, scalloped potatoes & béchamel. It is also used in holiday beverages, gingerbread and pumpkin pie and spice cakes. The taste is warm, rich, and excessively scented. Tropic wood, cloves, pine, and camphor are the primary tastes. Nutmeg composes of myristicin, a constituent with psychoactive properties, but which is also used to treat depression.
Whole Nutmeg was once rare and precious spice that the Dutch traded Manhattan to the British for the sole island on which it grew.It has a fragrance and intense flavor when freshly compressed. Today, Nutmeg is used in baked goods and custards, and grated for mashed potatoes, ravioli fillings, and egg nog. Nutmeg is used in sweet baking, besides being a usual ingredient in Northern European sausage and stew recipes. Whole Nutmeg is used for delicious cream covered dishes like creamed spinach, scalloped potatoes & béchamel. It is also used in holiday beverages, gingerbread and pumpkin pie and spice cakes. The taste is warm, rich, and excessively scented. Tropic wood, cloves, pine, and camphor are the primary tastes. Nutmeg composes of myristicin, a constituent with psychoactive properties, but which is also used to treat depression.
