Well, it’s really zucchini bread season, with grated nutmeg among the spices (*):
Having recently bought a very sharp grater, I hauled out a small vise to save my fingertips:
The dark lunette comes from a previous clamping attempt; it takes a while to find the most secure pin arrangement.
Grate a flat:
I’ve always enjoyed the surprisingly intricate patterns inside what looks like a bland nut.
Flip it over, flatten the other side, and grab it in an even smaller vise:
In truth, that vise is intended for small cylinders, not flattened nuts, but I figured it’d suffice for light-duty use. Grate parallel to the vise screw, reclamp as needed, and it worked out reasonably well.
Eventually, you have a pile of powder and one cubic nutmeg:
I’m sure there’s a way to grate the remaining cube, but I’m unwilling to shred my fingertips.
Tip the powder into a small jar and repeat as needed. Each nutmeg produces about 5 grams and I did three of the things this time.
Yummy!
(*) We omit the cloves and knock the sugar down by half. Your tastes will surely differ.
Update: Mary’s recipe!
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15 responses to “Nutmeg Season”
What – no recipe?
Certainly it contains more than zucchini, nutmeg, half-sugar and no-cloves.
Coming tomorrow!
Looking forward to it!
Hey, is there a way of automatically being notified?
Over at the bottom of the right column you’ll find the RSS feeds, if you use a reader. I just found the “follow by email” widget is missing, so it’s now just under the RSS stuff.
Essentially all of my 366 followers are spammers or folks who expected me to follow their blog if they follow mine, but there are a few real people on the list.
Right now, WordPress is fending off a comment spam attack on ten years of posts, apparently done by low-wage workers and scripts using compromised machines. Today may have more than 4000 page views, an order of magnitude more than usual, which is why I turn off post comments after a month or two.
Chuck it in the lathe.
You need a magnutic chuck, obviously.
(Or is that megnutic?)
Report to the woodshed for a sound thrashing immediately!
PLA glue one flat side to a stick and grate all the nutmeg.
I peez on glue. Epoxy or hot-melt FTW!
It’s grated nutmeg season indeed, my friends. Surprised you didn’t break out the Fly Cutter for this, but whatever. The deadly grater is probably safer.
Also, there’s this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIK9l-Dc9bI
Proving, without a doubt, that I have lost traction on contemporary music …
I think that’s what it is, right? [sigh]
Not even contemporary anymore. In any case, I rate it as “OK, passable but not great”. I listen to a lot of American Primitive, EDM, and metal. To make matters worse I play Bluegrass. My standards are probably pretty low. :-)
I just realized, I basically listen to “homemade style” music. Somewhat current metal is definitely showing some punk origins.
I see your low standards and raise you one track …
Low-volume dub techno seems to tamp down my tinnitus, so I’ve been streaming the Internet Archive’s Load & Clear / Netlabel collection from a decade back.
AFAICT, ya heard one, ya heard ’em all, but it suffices for my simple needs … [grin]
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