[Sca-cooks] tapenade, moreta, pesto

[Elaine Koogler]

I am a VERY poor Latin scholar, but from what I vaguely remember (from a
high school class mumbley-mumble years ago, could moretum be the singular,
with moreta being the plural?

Kiri

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> 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
> _______________________________________________
> Sca-cooks mailing list
> Sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/sca-cooks