Here are two ancient recipes for porridge from "On Agriculture," written by Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.) fromLacus Curtius. The first porridge recipe (85) is Phoenician and involves fancier ingredients (honey, eggs, and cheese) than the simple Roman (86) recipe involving grain, water, ...
Roman Food Romans usually ate bread, cheese, eggs, vegetables, fruit and nuts. They also ate meat, like chicken and fish, but not very much. They used lots of honey and vinegar when cooking because they liked sweet and sour foods. Most food was boiled or fried, but sometimes they grille...
Roman Food Romans usually ate bread, cheese, eggs, vegetables, fruit and nuts. They also ate meat, like chicken and fish, but not very much. They used lots of honey and vinegar when cooking because they liked sweet and sour foods. Most food was boiled or fried, but sometimes they grille...
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Making creamy, high-fat sauces, especially those thickened with starch or eggs, such as hollandaise and some ice cream bases. Without the bain-Marie’s gentle heat, bits of egg or starch may cook more quickly than the rest of the sauce, creating a clumpy, curdled texture, or the fat in...
some flavor, additives such as yeast, salt, spices, milk, and sometimes eggs were added just before the bread was cut into baking pieces. The bread was always rougher and harder because of these extra ingredients, but nonetheless, bread made up the biggest part of the ancient Egyptians’ ...
“Nowruzian Ruler”: a commoner who would pretend to be king for several days before being “dethroned” near the end of the festival. Nowruz has evolved considerably over time, but many of its ancient traditions—particularly the use of bonfires and colored eggs—remain a part of the modern...
When he felt the pangs of hunger he ate raw leaves and the roots of plants or he stole the eggs from the nest of an angry bird. Once in a while, after a long and patient chase, he managed to catch a sparrow or a small wild dog or perhaps a rabbit These he would eat raw, for...
There were both wild and domesticated goats, and they did have pigs, although they have appeared most often in the context of trampling the grain into the sown fields, and they were clearly used for food in Ptolemaic and Roman times.”“In their gardens they grew green beans, lentils, ...
Roman Food Romans usually ate bread, cheese, eggs, vegetables, fruit and nuts. They also ate meat, like chicken and fish, but not very much. They used lots of honey and vinegar when cooking because they liked sweet and sour foods. Most food was boiled or fried, but sometimes they grille...