MACE

Culinary Use
Mace is used to flavor all manner
of foods, sweet to savory.

spice cake
flavor whipped cream

Caution!!!!
Herb or Extract
Large amounts of nutmeg or mace may cause dizziness,
stomach pains, rapid pulse, nausea, anxiety,
liver pain, double vision and coma.

Spice made from the membrane that covers the nutmeg seed.
Tastes like a stronger version of nutmeg.

Mace is the bright red membrane that covers the nutmeg seed.

After the membrane is removed and dried
it becomes a yellow-orange color.

It's sold ground and, less frequently,
whole (in which case it's called a "blade").


Traditional Uses of Nutmeg