nutmeg

“I always loved warming spices like cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice and cloves,” Hutchings wrote.

They were mixed with the go-to expensive spices of the day: cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cloves, ginger and sugar.

Timothy Sharp, manager of Sparrow Coffee House in Cardiff, makes his own homemade syrup, adding spices like cloves, cardamom and star anise to the core PSL ingredients of ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg.

It is not what you expect from an apple dessert, as there is no cinnamon, nutmeg, or other warming spice to give it that quintessential autumn flavor.

I spotted one man tucking a handful of nutmeg into his pocket, just as Samir described the climactic troll feast.