General
Nutmeg is the seed of Myristica fragrans, an evergreen tree common in tropical climates.
The female specimens of the plant produces a fruit the size of an apricot, in which there is a network of scarlet red (the mace) which contains the seed intensity.
after harvest the fruits, the seeds are laid out to dry in the sun for a period between six and eight weeks, or are dried over a fire of wood during this treatment, the spice is detached from the shell that contains it, and is extracted. Nutmeg is used
grated, and is appreciated for its unique taste and refinement.
use in cooking in the kitchen space is the nutmeg in sweet and savory recipes, in particular lends itself to flavor sauces like bechamel sauce or onions. Excellent for flavoring mashed potatoes, nutmeg is housed in recipes fresh pasta (tortellini, cannelloni), with the ground meat (meatballs, meat loaf or stuffed with meat), vegetables (Brussels sprouts, spinach) and in mixtures some cakes, puddings and creams.
nutmeg is also used to flavor the hot wine, rum punch and other alcoholic beverages.
Cleaning
Walnut grated nutmeg is consumed.
Buying Guide
there on the market already grated nutmeg is the best way to savor the aroma is to buy it whole and grate only as consumed.
method of preservation
Nutmeg store in an airtight glass jar, then stored in a cool, dry place.
Curiosity
addition to its flavor, nutmeg is popular for its many therapeutic properties, in particular how calming it is also used to treat insomnia. It should not be taken in large doses, as it becomes a powerful narcotic. Taken in very high doses can even be lethal (5 grams cause the death of a man).
Nutmeg is the seed of Myristica fragrans, an evergreen tree common in tropical climates.
The female specimens of the plant produces a fruit the size of an apricot, in which there is a network of scarlet red (the mace) which contains the seed intensity.
after harvest the fruits, the seeds are laid out to dry in the sun for a period between six and eight weeks, or are dried over a fire of wood during this treatment, the spice is detached from the shell that contains it, and is extracted. Nutmeg is used
grated, and is appreciated for its unique taste and refinement.
use in cooking in the kitchen space is the nutmeg in sweet and savory recipes, in particular lends itself to flavor sauces like bechamel sauce or onions. Excellent for flavoring mashed potatoes, nutmeg is housed in recipes fresh pasta (tortellini, cannelloni), with the ground meat (meatballs, meat loaf or stuffed with meat), vegetables (Brussels sprouts, spinach) and in mixtures some cakes, puddings and creams.
nutmeg is also used to flavor the hot wine, rum punch and other alcoholic beverages.
Cleaning
Walnut grated nutmeg is consumed.
Buying Guide
there on the market already grated nutmeg is the best way to savor the aroma is to buy it whole and grate only as consumed.
method of preservation
Nutmeg store in an airtight glass jar, then stored in a cool, dry place.
Curiosity
addition to its flavor, nutmeg is popular for its many therapeutic properties, in particular how calming it is also used to treat insomnia. It should not be taken in large doses, as it becomes a powerful narcotic. Taken in very high doses can even be lethal (5 grams cause the death of a man).
This is a tall tree about 15 meters spontaneous Moluccas and the Philippines, which is grown on the islands of Sulawesi, Sumatra, East Indies in Guyana .
By the power of stimulating the Nutmeg is considered an aphrodisiac.
In the picture below you see our apricot-like fruit with the nut inside is still soft covered with a red menbrana di nome macis, anch'essa usata come spezia ma più delicata della noce moscata.
Le noci moscate erano note in Cina come farmaco da moltissimi secoli , per curare reumatismi, mal di stomaco, dissenteria e coliche. Nell’Europa del ‘600 la noce moscata era considerata anch’essa un afrodisiaco, ma anche un sonnifero. Alla noce moscata si attribuivano poi proprietà diuretiche, digestive, confortative per il fegato e lo stomaco, e addirittura la capacità di acuire la vista. L’olio di noci moscate was also one of the 75 components of Teriaca, drug omnipotent and infallible antidote for poisons and plagues used for hundreds of years until the late eighteenth century.
Nutmeg, used in large doses, is a hallucinogen whose properties 'drugs' and psychedelics have been known since antiquity. Nutmeg contains over all'isoeugenolo myristicin the fact that once ingested is converted to 'in vivo' in compounds whose chemical structure is not too far from the 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-metilamfetamina, better known to the public under the Ecstasy.
myristicin Ecstasy
myristicin Ecstasy
In the 18th century, people were running with their own nutmeg grater, with its silver or wood. Need to spicy foods.
In the Middle Ages 500 g of Nutmeg costs 7 oxen.
What would a white sauce without nutmeg?
... and the scent that gives the stuffed pasta?
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and desserts ...
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