A Single Spice Blend For Your Entire Kitchen - Kitchen Pepper From 1777

Plot twist: it's really just a bunch of different colors of nutmeg

Me looking at Jon's favorite recipes: "It's all nutmeg?" Jon, cocking a musket behind my head: "Always has been"

One Spice to rule them all, One Spice to find them, One Spice to bring them all, and in the kitchen bind them!

Kitchen Pepper Recipe: •Nutmeg • pinch of Nutmeg to taste *if you can’t find nutmeg, you can use nutmeg to substitute. This Kitchen Pepper goes well with everything, but, it pairs especially well with nutmeg.

FInally, a 9 minute video focused on Nutmeg. We have reached peak Townsends.

For those looking for the recipe itself: Kitchen Pepper - One ounce of ginger; pepper, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, half an ounce each; six ounces of salt; mix well, keep dry. Jon notes that the proportions of the spices were likely dependent more on availability and price than flavor preference in many cases as, with many situations in the late 18th century, spices were a luxury and required cunning compromise. Jon also notes that you may want to grate or grind your nutmeg just before adding to your dish to allow more of the aromatic quality to be present, and that some similar period recipes call for what we now know as Allspice as a substitute for nutmeg as it has similar aromatic qualities but was cheaper to obtain. I plan to make this mix myself today, mixing allspice and nutmeg in equal parts with an ounce less of salt.

2020: oh no, pumpkin spice flavour is already starting in September, things are getting out of hand 1777: pumpkin spice pie, pumpkin spice meat, pumpkin spice all year round

Fun fact: Allspice is so-called because it tastes similar to a combination of cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg.

"The Spice must flow!" "He who controls the spice, controls the universe!" ...and so it begins... Jon IS the SPICE of life! : - )

Not going to lie: the thumbnail made me think that nutmeg was going to be outlawed.

Thumbnail: angry looking dude, looks like he's going to show you how to make poison Actual video: really happy guy living his best life, showing you how to make some tasty spice melange

Jon: I might double the nutmeg Regular viewers: You don't say.

Jon: "I might double the nutmeg." Me: "Might". Sure Jon. "Might" :P

Video quality is always improving. Couldn't even tell the difference from this and a high end travel channel shot done the same way anymore.

Did this 15 years ago when I was deployed. Called it Henry's seasoning. Henry was my neighbor growing up in rural WI.

this dudes one day is more interesting than my entire life

Oh, believe me, this blend is hundreds of years old, dating back to the Middle Ages. It was just called differently back then - 14th and 15th century cookbooks have dozens of recipes containing "powder fort" or "poudre fort", literally "spicy/strong powder", an almost exact equivalent of later kitchen pepper. There was also a sweeter variant which contained sugar - it was called "poudre douce" or "powdour douce" ("sweet powder") and was very similar to modern-day pumpkin spice blend or gingerbread spice blend.

I watched this with my 9 year old daughter at 10pm. She said we have to make it now, not in the morning right now. Now I have been told we are having pork chops tomorrow for dinner. She loves the cooking and cabin videos, especially the ones with Ivey.

'If I were to make my own personal spice mix' waits for him to say he'd add more nutmeg

3:02 John: What's our base spice that's in this mix? Well, that's... Everyone: Nutmeg!