[Sca-cooks] Historic Recipe in 2009 Herb Quarterly

[Gretchen Beck]

--On Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:31 PM -0400 Sharon Gordon
<gordonse at one.net> wrote:

> As part of the International Herb of the year's focus on bay, the Spring
> 2009 Herb Quarterly features an article on bay's uses throughout history.
> As a side bar the author included an ancient Roman recipe for cheese bread
> from Cato.  It's a flat bread baked on top of bay leaves to perfume it.

Neat! I cooked what is probably a descendant of it this weekend (not for a
feast). Yeast dough 2/3 bread flour, 1/3 corn meal, create disks, brush
with oil, put in a bayleaf, and fold over or seal. Let rise again and bake.

Yummy!

toodles, margaret