[Sca-cooks] tapenade, moreta, pesto
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Mon Jun 25 17:17:50 PDT 2001
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
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