[Sca-cooks] Garum and cheesecake
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Tue Aug 28 20:55:16 PDT 2007
Volker Bach said back on Aug. 7,
<<<
> Garum was mentioned in one of the first Time Life
> cookbooks, the one on Italy. I think it even had
> instructions on how to make. The same book also
> had a ricotta cheese cake, claimed to be a very
> early Italian recipe.
Do you by any chance recall where the recipe was from?
There are garum-.like sauces still made today, but the
only historical recipe I know is from the Geoponica. >>>
What is this "Geoponica"? Do you have a copy of this historical garum
recipe?
<<< The ricotta cake could well have been Cato's
'placenta'. If it was - it's well worth making. >>>
For a bit on Roman and medieval cheesecake style dishes, see this file:
cheesecake-msg (48K) 12/ 1/06 Medieval cheesecake. Recipes.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/cheesecake-msg.html
Stefan
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