In a recipe for dough puffs (kind of like doughnuts) it says to add mace. What is mace?
Is mace just a spice that I could leave out, or is it something that is important in the way the dough puffs will bake. Please help!
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9 comments a “In a recipe for dough puffs (kind of like doughnuts) it says to add mace. What is mace?”
It’s just a spice and you can substitute Allspice, cinnamon, ginger or nutmeg or just leave it out.
Edit: The link below has good information; you may want to bookmark it for future reference.
mace is a spice, a lot like nutmeg. You can substitute nutmeg if you don’t have mace. You could leave it out entirely without affecting the way they dough puffs will bake.
Mace is the outer coating of the nutmeg ‘seed’.
It kind of looks like black ribby roots that grow around the nutmeg. Whole nutmeg sold in stores no longer has the mace around it.
You can buy it already ground (buy the smallest amount necessary…), OR you can use nutmeg, but mace is a little sharper and darker. Use mace if you can get it….makes it a little more special, but isn’t a huge difference if you really don’t want to hunt it down at the stores.
Are you familiar with the spice nutmeg? Nutmeg has a fine lacy red netting around the seed then it’s first pried out of it’s shell. that red lacing is called ‘mace’. It is one of the more expensive spices on the market. You CAN leave it out of your recipe. it is not necessary to making it puff up it’s only a flavor.
hope that helps.
mace
NOUN:
An aromatic spice made from the dried, waxy, scarlet or yellowish covering that partly encloses the kernel of the nutmeg.
Sorry there is no description of tase or flavor.
In addition to being a spice, Mace is a self-defense spray that really hurts when someone sprays it in your face. It’s also a medieval weapon used to bludgeon opponents. So when you’re at the store, be sure to pick the little jar that looks like spice, and not the little spray can or the big spiked club.
it WON’T HURT YOUR RECIPE.
YOU MAY OMIT IT IF DON’;T HAVE ONE.
Mace is the outer shell of the nutmeg fruit. It has a lighter, sweeter flavor.
Mace is the orange, web-like covering, or aril, that surrounds the kernel of the seed (nutmeg), and is the costlier and more aromatic of the two spices.
It’s just a spice. Leave it out.
I am a former chef and worked in Jamaica, we had a tree that the nutmeg grew on along with a pimento tree which the allspice berrys come from.
True, the mace is a lacey coating on the outer shell of the nutmeg, when growing it looks like a small walnut, the outer shell is remove, the mace is take off and the nutmeg is left and then the mace & nutmeg are dried.
As for the flavour it is much like nutmeg, but a bit more floral and a bit citrusy. It has a more subtle taste than nutmeg, but nutmeg is a good replacement. I use it in baking, mashed potatos, in egg nog at Xmas and on cappacino, I am not into cinnimon.
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