Nutmeg

Noix de muscade

What it is

Once it grew on ten tiny islands and nowhere else on Earth. In 1667 the Dutch traded Manhattan to the English to keep Run, a nutmeg island two miles long — history’s verdict on that swap is still funny.

In the kitchen

Buy it whole, grate it directly over the dish, and stop earlier than you think: three passes of the grater season a whole béchamel.

Goes with

Spinach Potato Cream Egg Honey

Same species

Mace

Also used with

Arracacha Natural casings Butternut squash Calf's brain Fontina Valle d’Aosta Good King Henry

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