[Sca-cooks] Pretzels

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Well, there's Cato's recipe for spira. But that involves  braids:

"LXXVII – About the spira
Set out everything in the same  proportions as for the placenta, except 
that you put the strips differently on  the base: cover them well with honey; 
braid them then like a cord you put on the  base, carefully putting simple 
strips in the interstices. For the rest proceed  and bake as for the placenta."
 
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/05/beyond-apicius-2-recipes-from-other.htm
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Jim  Chevallier

Contributor, Savoring Gotham
A Food Lover's Companion to  New York City
Editor-in-chief: Andrew F. Smith and Foreword by Garrett  Oliver
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In  a message dated 2/26/2016 1:18:23 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
rebeccaanne3 at gmail.com writes:
(If it helps, that dictionary gives "spira" as  the
Latin translation for "ciambella" - I don't know how reliable its  Latin
translations generally are, I haven't used them much. And that's the  3rd
edition, in 1691; the 1612 edition doesn't have a Latin translation  for
ciambella. Still, if anyone knows a cookbook in Latin with a recipe by  that
name...)