Enjoy Me...

• Nutmeg and rice pudding - they go hand in hand! We have discovered it can be made deliciously with brown rice, raisins, cinnamon and nutmeg.
• Fresh nutmeg ground on the spot is so much more fragrant and nutrient dense than commercially ground nutmeg.

How Interesting...

• The nutmeg tree is indigenous to the Banda Islands of Indonesia but is also grown in the Caribbean, especially in Grenada. The first harvest of nutmeg trees takes place 7-9 years after planting, and the trees reach their full potential after 20 years.
• At one time, nutmeg was one of the most valuable spices. It has been said that in England, several hundred years ago, a few nutmeg nuts could be sold for enough money to enable financial independence for life.
• It is one of the two spices - the other being mace, derived from several species of tree in the genus Myristica. This hard brown seed from the nutmeg tree (a tropical evergreen) has a warm, spicy sweet flavour. Mace is the dried lacy membrane from around the nutmeg seed