MACE Shell Powder

MACE SHELL, Botanical name: Myristica fragrans is well known Food Spices for Cooking and Chili recipe. A spice is a dried seed, fruit, root, bark, or vegetative substance primarily used for flavoring, coloring or preserving food.

Botanical name:  Myristica fragrans

What is Mace?    Mace is the aril (the bright red, lacy covering) of the nutmeg seed shell.
The mace is removed from the shell and its broken parts are known as blades.?The history of mace is closely tied to the history of nutmeg for obvious reasons, though the two items have been treated seperately .
Because the yield of mace is much less than nutmegs it has had greater value. A pile of fruit large enough to make one hundred pounds of nutmeg produces a single pound of mace.
When the Dutch controlled the Moluccas (the Spice Islands), one colonial administator sent orders that the colonists should plant fewer nutmeg trees and more mace trees.

Habitat:     The nutmeg tree is a large evergreen native to the Moluccas (the Spice Islands) and is now cultivated in the West Indies.

Description:    In its natural state, mace is a bright crimson lace up to 35 mm (1-1/2 in) long, encasing the brown nutmeg in irregular, fleshy lobes.
As it is dried, it develops its charcteristic aroma but loses its bright red colour.
Mace from the West Indies is a yellowish brown colour and with fewer holes than mace from East Indian nutmegs which are more orange when dried.
The mace from either locale can become brittle and horny, though the best quality mace will retain some pliability and release a little oil when squeezed.
It is flattened and sometimes roughly broken into blades. It is also sold ground and sometimes still enclosing the nutmeg.
Mace, spice consisting of the dried aril, or lacy covering, of the nutmeg fruit of Myristica fragrans, a tropical evergreen tree.
Mace has a slightly warm taste and a fragrance similar to that of nutmeg. It is used to flavour bakery, meat, and fish dishes; to flavour sauces and vegetables; and in preserving and pickling.
In the processing of mace, the crimson-coloured aril is removed from the nutmeg that it envelops and is flattened out and dried for 10 to 14 days; its colour changes to pale yellow, orange, or tan.
Whole dry mace consists of flat pieces-branched or segmented, smooth, horny, and brittle-about 40 mm (1.6 inches) long.

Plant Part/s We are Selling in this Listing:  SHELL Powder
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Packaging:  Paper envelope PAP 22 / BS EN 26590-1 for nutritional purposes. Thus, the herbs are kept in the best possible way - no contact with light and moisture, with the ability to breathe through the paper.

Country of Origin:  INDIA

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