[Sca-cooks] Mace and Must Substitute

[ranvaig at columbus.rr.com]

>Also sprach Stephen Bloch:
>>I'm confused.  I thought mace was just the outer skin of the 
>>nutmeg, so "whole" mace would be exactly the shape (if not the 
>>color) of whole nutmeg.  Or if it's already been removed from the 
>>nutmeg, it would look like little curls of brown paper.  Nicht wahr?
>
>The thing is, mace doesn't come in a whole sheet, and isn't much at 
>all like the papery wrapping of a peanut inside its shell. It's 
>thicker, somewhat waxy in texture, and wraps around the nutmeg 
>kernel itself in much the same way a fist wraps around a ball. The 
>squidly-diddly-ness of mace (I think that was something like the 
>term Anahita used) is mostly due to the drying of the "fingers".
>
>So it really does look like waxy, orangey-brown, squidly-somethings. 
>Sort of...
>
>Adamantius

http://www.shamanshop.net/store/images/MyristicaFragrans7.jpg
Here is a good picture of it... the red stuff is the mace