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How To make Cato's Cheese Bread (Libum)
1 c Feta cheese, drained,
Crumbled, and packed into The measuring cup 1/2 c Unbleached, all-purpose
Flour 1 Egg, beaten
6 Bay leaves
2 tb Honey
1) Put the cheese into a medium sized mixing bowl. Mash well with the
fingers until it becomes a smooth, lumpless paste. Add the flour and mix well with the fingers. Add the beaten egg and mix well. The dough will be rather sticky. 2) Divide the dough into two equal parts, then form two round, flat, 1/2
inch thick loaves. Lay each on three bay leaves set on a greased baking sheet, and bake in a preheated 400 degree oven for 1 to 1-1/2 hours, or until cooked through. 3) Remove the loaves from the oven, spread the tops with the honey, and
let cool. Remove the bay leaves before serving. NOTE: If feta cheese is unavailable, use 1 cup cottage cheese and add 1/4 cup extra flour (but the taste is inferior).
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Episode 3 Roman cheesecake Libum #1
Here we are at last with episode 3 This is the first of two films about libum- the sacrificial cake of cheese eggs and flour, from the recipe in Cato (75). It could be both an offering to the gods, when it was rather dense and worthy and also, when baked fresh and with a greater ratio of cheese and egg to flour, as a delicate dinner sweet. Apologies for delayed up load. I had hoped to be able to upload a film each week but that has proved impossible, not least because I rely on Rod to edit and create the wonderful effects. I hope you enjoy the credits, he has worked hard making my garden look tidy and lovely when in reality it is typical of any autumn garden i.e. a mess. Let me also introduce you to Zeus - our beautiful mad collie - chasing his tail in the credits. I have also been dealing with 1st proofs of my next book too so rather preoccupied, but they have gone at last and I can concentrate on Roman cooking again. Don't forget to look for the blog post associated with this film on the web site: It will be posted on Friday 23rd. Also do please make requests of recipes that I can cook on the Roman hob.
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Today we prepare the globi, spelt fritters with honey and poppy seeds from Cato's De Agri Cultura, a source written in the 2nd century BCE.
Ingredients:
spelt
cheese
lard
honey
white poppy seeds
Gastris
Poppy seeds bread
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Placenta - Honey Cheesecake
Libum
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Mustacei
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Kalliopeia Sopha – Mesomedes of Crete 2nd century AD
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Ancient Roman Ritual Cheesecake – Honey and Millet Libum
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Today we prepare millet and honey libum, an ancient Roman ritual cheesecake, from Ovid's Fasti and Cato's De Agri Cultura.
Ingredients:
millet flour
cheese
eggs
honey
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First Delfic Hymn - Athenaeus 128 BCE
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ancient Roman placenta cake (cheese cake)
ancient Roman placenta cake(what to day we would call a cheese cake)
Libum Romanum (Roman Cake)
Magister Paulus, tenens machinum photographicum, conatur facere Liba. Based on Cato De Agricultura 75.