Ground Mace Spice

Mace like nutmeg is used to flavor cakes and other sweets, but mace is also used in many savory dishes. These include meats, sauces, curries, pickling, ketchup, and even Worcestershire sauce.

Mace can be used as a nutmeg substitute in most recipes. This spice is sweeter and milder, but has a similar flavor to nutmeg.

Mace is often used in place of nutmeg when dark colored flecks of nutmeg might ruin the appearance of certain dishes. Ground mace can be substituted in light colored sauces, clear broths, omelets, and mashed potatoes.

Crush or grind whole mace just prior to use in order to release its essential oils, flavor, & aroma.

Mace should be added at the begin of the cooking process to allow its full flavor to come out.

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Mace (Nutmeg) Tree

Mace is produced by the Myristica franrans, a member of the mayriticaceae family. This plant, native to Indonesia, grows into a tropical evergreen tree of up to thirty feet tall. This same tree produces the better known nutmeg spice.

The seed of this tree, which we know as nutmeg, is incased in several edible layers. The outer most is a small, golden colored fruit with reddish spots. The next layer is a red, web like, seed membrane called an aril, which is sold as the spice mace. The mace aril encapsulates the endosperm, or nutmeg seed.

Fresh nutmeg mace has a bright red color which, turning dark-orange to brown when dried.

The leave of this tree are long dark green, and oblong. its small white flowers form in clusters at the ends of the branches.

History of mace

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