Nutmeg Recipes Page 61

Recipes Featuring Nutmeg

• Butternut Balls
  Butternuts or Beachnuts Allspice Nutmeg
• Potted Ham
  2 lbs lean ham 1 lb butter 2 tsps mace, powdered 1/2 nutmeg, grated 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
• Drop (white) Sugar Cookies
  2 eggs 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 1 cup butter (or lard) 1 cup sour milk 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
• Escalloped Sweet Potatoes
  Potatoes Sugar Nutmeg Butter
• Cream of Spinach | 1 pint spinach, boiled
  1 pint spinach, boiled 4 ounces butter Nutmeg, grated 1 tsp salt 2 quarts stock (see Stock recipe) 1 Tbsp butter 1 tsp granulated sugar
• Pancakes | 4 eggs
  4 eggs 1/4 lb flour, sifted Salt Nutmeg, grated 1/2 pint milk or cream Butter, melted Cinnamon & sugar or marmalade Sugar
• Cold Sauce | 1 heaping Tbsp butter
  1 heaping Tbsp butter Sugar 2 Tbsps milk 4 Tbsps wine Nutmeg, grated
• Buttered Prawns
  1 pint of picked prawns 3 quarters of a pint of stock butter flour salt cayenne and nutmeg to taste fried bread or toasted sippets Cream sauce may be substituted for the gravy.
• Blackberry Cordial | 1 quart blackberry juice
  1 quart blackberry juice 1 pound sugar 1 tsp ground cloves 2 tsp each grated nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice 1 pint brandy
• Wine Posset
  1 quart of new milk Crumbs of a very small loaf 1/2 a nutmeg Sugar 1 pint of Lisbon wine Toast