[Sca-cooks] Dayboard...moretum
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 28 16:30:27 PDT 2006
Katira wrote:
> >Herbs in cheese no problem! How about MORETUM, a food/lust poem by
> >Virgil, wherein the amorous rustic makes his lunch of cheese pounded
> >with garlic, rue, coriander seeds and salt.
> ><http://virgil.org/appendix/moretum.htm>
> >
> >Bon Appetit,
> >Selene
>
>Yes, we had this at a recent SCA feast here in the West. I fell in love
>with it and have made it at home since then. While I grow rue, I didn't use
>it.
I served Moretum at the Greco-Roman Mists Bardic i did in 2002.
Euriol of Lothien made it and she parboiled the garlic so it wouldn't
be too harsh. While I like my garlic with more bite, her idea was
"kind" to those who like their garlic to be gentler :-)
As for my cheese at the Dayboard, I ended up just serving it plain as
a spread for the nice part-whole wheat bread that Anna Serre made. A
lovely young Indian woman (truly South Asian, not a persona) said it
reminded her of cheese her mother used to make.
--
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita
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