[Sca-cooks] tapenade, moreta, pesto

[Philip & Susan Troy]

margali wrote:
>
> Moreta is a combination of cheese and garlic and herbs [?]
> pounded together into a paste which is then used as a dip.

I think, rather, that the combination of cheese, garlic and herbs is a
moretum, of which there are more than one type.

> Unfortunately I lost my apicius list files when the last computer
> fried, but you could probably do a websearch and find the recipe.
> margali
> moretaria IIRC is the latin. Could it be the precurser in a way
> to mortrews?

Inasmuch as both are prepared in a mortar, yes. Is there direct
ancestry? Perhaps not.

Adamantius