SC - Definition
Nick Sasso (fra niccolo)
grizly at mindspring.com
Tue Jul 8 14:36:55 PDT 1997
In a message dated 97-07-07 20:10:17 EDT, you write:
<< What sort of redacted recipe can you make from this Apecius translation
(the
Vehling trans., all I have at the moment):
(129)ALITER PATINA VERSATILIS
THE DISH, CALLED A TURN-OVER, IS THUS MADE: CRUSH VERY FINE WALNUTS AND
HAZLENUTS TOAST THEM AND CRUSH WITH HONEY, MIX IN PEPPER, BROTH, MILK AND
EGGS AND A LITTLE OIL.
>>
I could see this coming out in two different ways, based on relative
proportions.
If you had a lot of finely ground nuts (essentially nut flour), mixed with a
little honey, spices, and a relatively small amount of liquid, you could
easily come up with a fried cake or pancake, or possibly even something like
a muffin.
On the other hand, if you had a lot of eggs with some milk, some ground nuts
and the honey and spices, and fried it in the oil, you could end up with a
sweet nut and honey omelete (which my roommate would probably love!). Since
I'm not clear on what the Roman conception of a "turnover" was (assuming this
is the correct translation), I wouldn't know which way to go with it, and
being that the results are so different, I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable
calling either one of them "authentic Roman cooking".
Brangwayna Morgan
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