Nutmeg confusion!

[Tinysmith19]

I proudly grated the black outside of nutmeg shell into my Christmas cake. Then I found the inside seed(too late!) Please tell me, am I not going to poison everyone? Only quarter of teaspoon. Help please

Not at all sure that was a nutmeg tbh. I’ve never seen one in a shell. Did you see the mace (Lacey coating) surrounding the nutmeg when you found it inside? If not - definitely not a nutmeg.

What did you use OP?
Nutmeg is a whole solid thing so if you grated it everything would have turned up small.
What did you use?!

I’ve never seen a nutmeg shell

Do you mean like this?

It will be fine if it was as in the picture above, you've used the mace, which has a stronger flavour than the nutmeg. Mace is usually sold separately.

You can get nutmegs in the shell from middle Eastern / Asian shops
You're supposed to crack the shell then use the seed. It won't kill anyone, just won't taste of nutmeg!

Like this - they don't have the mace in though, so must be different variety but taste the same