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Title: Spices, their nature and growth, the vanilla bean, a talk on tea
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: McCormick and company, Baltimore. (from old catalog) Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress) DLC (from old catalog)
Subjects: Spices cbk
Publisher: Baltimore, Md., McCormick & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Green F Cross section of Fruit Vz Natural size MacassarNutmeg pe Fruitin act ofbursting Nutmeg, Shell partlyin shell removed Lross section Penan^ Nutmegs ^ Nutmeg ^ML McCORMICKXndCQMRANY 11 Nutmegs and Mace THE Nutmeg-trcc, genus Myristica (natural order Myristic-aceoe), native of the Malay Archipelago, usually grows to aheight of twenty to thirty feet. While the greater part ofthe worlds supply of both Nutmegs and Mace comes from theBanda Islands, the West Indies are by no means to be overlooked. The Nutmeg fruit is about three inches long and about two inchesin diam.eter. It includes, first, the outer or fleshy m.embranous part;second, the substance covering the outer shell of the Nutmeg, knownas Mace, next the shell, and finally the kernel or commercial Nutmeg. After harvesting, which in some places is done with long forkedsticks or bamboo poles, the red colored network (Mace) is removedand the nuts are placed over a fire in mesh bottom receptacles,where they remain for perhaps a m

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