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- Title
An Experimental Approach to Baking Ancient Roman Placenta.
- Authors
Morton, Jake; Schlick, Ellen
- Abstract
Cato The Elder (234-149 BC) wrote our oldest extant work of continuous Latin prose, On Farming (de agri cultura), a how-to guide for farming and life that also included many recipes. We were interested in the section on bread recipes in this text, particularly the recipe for the complex, layered placenta due to its choice of ingredients and cooking techniques. We were especially interested in the use of farro paste, an ingredient we had never seen used in ancient or modern cooking. Since Cato's placenta recipe makes a huge placenta (more than 26 pounds of ingredients), we scaled down the recipe in our initial experiments. For the tracta, we experimented with roughly 1/12 the original amounts
- Subjects
PLACENTA; BAKING; ROMANS; BREAD
- Publication
EXARC Journal, 2024, Issue 2, p2
- ISSN
2212-523X
- Publication type
Article