[Sca-cooks] moretum

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

A-HEM!  You're missing the point here, people.  Let's return to the 
original source of the recipe, which is a poem by Virgil, describing how 
a Roman farmer prepares his morning meal. 
http://virgil.org/appendix/moretum.htm
He's a poor man, who lives a simple life.  His larder has no smoked meat 
hanging in it, only a large cheese.  Over and over, Virgil inserts 
details to emphasise that this is an uncouth backcountry fellow .  His 
garment is a hairy goatskin, and he sings "country ditties" while he 
grinds grain for his flatbread, or talks to himself in "rustic speech".

Naturally, rue is one of the herbs in this recipe.  After all, it's 
breakfast for a rube.

Brighid, I don't need no steenkin' Rock

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Brighid ni Chiarain
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
Robin Carroll-Mann *** rcmann4 at earthlink.net