[Miraz]

I had a thing for old recipes for a while - the use of nutmeg goes back a lot further....I've got a couple of collections of recipes that purport to be from 3rd or 4th century Rome. The use of nutmeg/mace was widespread for pretty much any savoury dish that contained cream or milk even that far back.

Nutmeg used to be a seriously expensive ingredient - in the 14th century a pound of nutmeg had a value equivalent to a whole cow - Wars were fought for control of nutmeg production.