[Sca-cooks] Nutmeg, Mace, and Other Parts of the Plant

[James Prescott]

Ouverture refers to "leaf of nutmeg" (fueille de muscade), which I
have interpreted as probably referring to mace.  A modern recipe
from the Netherlands refers to "leaves of mace" (blaadjes foelie).

Elsewhere Casteau has "flower of nutmeg" (fleur de muscade) which
I believe definitely refers to mace.


Thorvald


At 1:51 PM -0500 2/7/11, Johnna Holloway wrote:
>  This was in the 1616  Koge Bog translation. I 
> suspect that it might have been mace by that 
> time.
>  The original is Danish so it may be a translation problem too.
>
>  I don't recall ever coming across nutmeg 
> flowers and given that nutmeg was coming from 
> Indonesia and Banda islands near there in that 
> period, I can't see how they transported  or 
> would have cared to bring flowers back.
>
>  http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Myri_fra.html says--
>
>  "Some Euro pean languages name mace flower of 
> nutmeg (German Muskat blüte, Swedish muskot 
> blomma, Czech mu”kátov˜ kvût or French fleur de 
> muscade). Although this is botanically 
> incorrect, the mace was supposed to be the 
> flower of the nutmeg tree during the Middle 
> Ages; even Marco Polo propagated this error in 
> the 14.th century."
>
>  Johnnae
>
>
>  On Feb 7, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Sam Wallace wrote:
>
>>  In the thread about Bratwurst recipes, one of the recipes Johnnae gave
>>  included "half-crushed nutmeg flowers." I wonder was this a euphemism
>>  for mace or if it really was the (dried) flowers, partially crushed
>>  and then added to the mix. Likewise, I found a recipe which called for
>>  nutmeg leaves and am aware of the fruit being used in preserves, but
>>  have been able to get any of these. Does anyone have a good source of
>>  these nutmeg plant products?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>  Guillaume
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