[Sca-cooks] Nutmeg grater?

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

The first mention of a nutmeg grater in the OED is from 1695, though
graters are mentioned earlier. Does anyone know when grating, rather than
pounding, of nutmeg may have come into fashion?

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
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