[Sca-cooks] A Cheesy Question - Answered?

[Christine Seelye-King]

In going through my salad file, I found this, which might be an interesting
variation on one of the cheese choices, and could be made more inexpensively
than chunks of cheese.
Christianna

-----Original Message-----
From: sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org
[mailto:sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Susan Fox-Davis
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 12:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] tapenade, moreta, pesto


> > 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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