Nutmeg: Fragrant or fragrant, mace, Nutmeg, (myristica fragrans). ID: 121-49

Nutmeg is known to be a valuable and expensive spice in medieval European cuisine as a flavoring, medicine and preservative.

In Elizabethan times because the nutmeg was believed to repel the plague, its demand increased and its price skyrocketed. They never discovered the exact location of the source of the Indian Ocean's lucrative trade, and no European was able to deduce its location. bile.

Cooking:

We can use it in sauces with milk or sour cream (eg béchamel). Also in lemon sauces, especially if mixed with flour or corn flour.

We can also use it in tomato sauces.

We can make bolognese only with nutmeg, while it is also suitable for various minced meat preparations, mainly burgers and minced meat rolls. It is also perfect for bagpipes.

It goes well with mashed potatoes but also with preparations that contain it, such as gnocchi, English shepherd's pie, potato pies, potato croquettes, etc.

Flavors the spinach perfectly, whether it is steamed or sauteed or cooked like spinach. We can even use it in spinach meatballs.

Generally suitable for cooking with sweet herbs, e.g. herbal soups, yoghurts, cigarettes, etc., to which he gives his earthy musk.

Also with cauliflower, pumpkin, carrot and leeks, grilled, cooked, mashed or in soup.

In pies such as chicken pie, prasopita, minced pie. In souffle with cheese and greens.

In chicken or pork with lemon or orange sauces.

In oriental pilafs with dried apricots, raisins, dates and nuts (almonds, pistachios, etc.).

In preparations with lamb liver (eg in the cook!)

In breads and pastries.

In confectionery, nutmeg can be used instead of cinnamon (or with it), e.g. for sprinkling creams. Also, in preparations with apple, banana, pumpkin (eg sweet pumpkin pie), in jams, but also in sauces and chocolate mousse.

Its "woody" aroma is intense and decisive for the food where it is used. Therefore, pay attention to the quantities.

Therapeutic :

Properties : Dissolves gallstones, antiseptic in the intestine, digestive, in gastric and intestinal bloating, tonic and general regulatory regulators of the brain and circulation, emmenagogue, aromatic in bad breath .

External use : It is active rheumatic pains and neuralgia of the teeth.

Active Ingredients : Nutmeg butter, myriotine, olein, butyrin, palmitin, steatine.

How to use : Food, infusion, External use (nutmeg butter), essential oil.

Side effects : in large doses of 7 g and above the nutmeg essential oil can stop the blood circulation, its signs of intoxication are similar to alcohol intoxication. That's why we should never use this concentrated oil internally.

Nutmeg in overdose has hallucinogenic properties. If someone consumes a large amount abruptly, he is delirious.

If you take 7.5 grams or more you may experience convulsions and palpitations.

Do not use in therapeutic doses by pregnant women during pregnancy.