[Sca-cooks] Mace and Must Substitute

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

I wrote:
>  >First, they had packages of whole mace! I don't know what i'll do
>  >with it, but it was under $2, so how could i resist? I mean, it's so
>  >cthulhoid looking - the squidly diddley of spice - how charming!

And John Elys wrote:
>I'm confused.  I thought mace was just the outer skin of the nutmeg

Yes...

>so "whole" mace would be exactly the shape (if not the color) of
>whole nutmeg.

No, that would be the whole fruit (ok, so the fruit is removed - i 
gotta get a jar of Indonesian nutmeg fruit jam), but that would be 
the nutmeg covered with the mace...

>Or if it's already been removed from the nutmeg, it
>would look like little curls of brown paper.  Nicht wahr?

This is whole, as in unground. The only other mace i find is 
powdered. It does not look like curls of brown paper. Rather, the 
mace is entire, complete, cut only enough to get it off the nutmeg. 
Capiche?

Anahita