Your kitchen wouldn't be complete without a well-stocked spice rack. But, it pays to know the difference between similar spices like nutmeg and mace.

These traditional Tudor biscuits are flavoured with prized spices – caraway, aniseed and mace. Line two large baking trays with baking parchment. Place the caraway seeds in a spice grinder or a ...

Nutmeg comes from grinding the inner seed kernels; its sister spice, mace, comes from grinding the tissue that envelopes the seeds. Since this plant yields two spices, the long wait for the trees ...