Nutmeg - Do you use it?

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Bought some peaches from a local orchard and made pies! Mine contain both nutmeg and cinnamon.
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In that movie, “Malcolm X” and before he became that but he was a prisoner, they have a scene where nutmeg is used as a drug, they smoke it or something. I forget.snorting? Anyway, the web indeed has many references to this.
 
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Great…now I want some peach pie! 😂
They look delicious!
 
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I’ve seen the peach pie post just before going to bed. Made me hungry. Wanted some peach pie as well!
 
My husband is Greek. And in some of the foods I make I use Nutmeg like in
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Nice looking pies! Mama used to make peach pies, but she never made the cross-weaving on top. Hers just had the regular solid pie crusts on top, with the usual fork tine piercings. I understand it’s quite tricky to get the cross-weaving nice and straight like that.

Here’s a little (unfortunate) American history trivia concerning pies:

Back in the days of complete ignorance and superstition, during the Salem Witch trials, a woman accused of being a witch was instructed by the court to go home and make a cherry pie, and bring it into court with her afterwards.

Some of those women were very skilled at pie-making, and they brought into court perfect cherry pies, with the cross-weaving on top absolutely perfect. They were found guilty of being witches because, according to the judges, NO ordinary woman could make a cherry pie that perfectly. Perfect cherry pies, in those days, were very hard to get just right.

The message to the other accused “witches” – HIDE YOUR TALENT!
 
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I will try it this weekend.

I don’t have cloves in my pantry. I may substitute with smoked paprika which I do have.
 
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F_Marturana said:
I like to purchase the nutmeg whole and grate is as I need. It smells very nice.
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Yes, that was what my mom always did, when I was growing up in London back in the twentieth century. Britain is one of the countries where nutmeg is in common use.
 
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I’ve probably used it in savory cooking if it’s already part of a spice blend or mixture.

Normally I’ll use it in baking, especially when it comes to making things like pumpkin pie or other pumpkin-related dessert items.

From my familiarity with it, I think that it’s also normally used in other spice cake recipes and with cinnamon, too.

It does have a nice flavor to it. 🙂
 
I made this recipe for my Sunday night dinner. It came out better than I had expected and will definitely prepare it again. The spices permeated the salmon and weren’t just a flavor topping. Since I didn’t have coriander I substituted crushed cardamom seeds per an online recommendation. Also I used white pepper instead of black just out of personal preference. This was the finished plate. Thanks for the recipe. I wouldn’t have thought to use nutmeg along with the other spices on salmon.

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