Adding nutmeg to taste to savory foods is actually very early modern of you, as it happens! It was the last of the medieval spices to retain a prominent place in 18th century cuisine (besides pepper of course). For instance it shows up over one hundred times in "The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy" (1784):

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