Mace

Potted under clarified butter with one blade, and nothing has improved on it.

Ground into the farce where nutmeg would be coarse. The pork pie standard.

Dissolves clean, so a white sauce gains warmth and no visible grit.

Poached pale meat wants perfume, not pepper. The blade supplies it.

Steeped whole and lifted out; softer and more floral than a grating of nutmeg.

Sulfur under a floral warmth. It stops the gratin tasting boiled.

Pale meat and pale spice; nothing in the pot is doing anything by force.

Lactones and floral pepper; poached fruit ends up tasting of its own skin.

Both floral and faintly peppery. Mughal kitchens leaned on it harder than anyone.

Sweet white meat with a floral warmth. Maryland uses it and will not say why.

Cocoa butter is blank, so only the floral half of the blade shows up.

Pinene from the blade, pinene from the juniper, and no bitterness added.