[Sca-cooks] tapenade, moreta, pesto
Susan Fox-Davis
selene at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 26 09:01:46 PDT 2001
> > 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
http://virgil.org/appendix/moretum.htm
Here's a translation of Virgil's poem MORETUM wherein Symilus the rustic
husbandman prepares this dish of garlic, parsley, rue, coriander, salt and
cheese, pounded in a mortar and sprinkled with olive oil and vinegar,
which he forms into a ball, packs it up with bread for his lunch and goes
back to work.
Re Moreta, Weyrwoman of Pern: a were-woman, a man who turns into a woman
when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright? Kinky.
Selene
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