Grape and Nut Dessert Recipe
Cooking Method & Instructions:
Mesh pepper, pine kernels, honey, rue and Passum (sweet
grape juice) with milk and eggs, and boil the dough.
Serve topped with honey and sprinkle with pepper.
Grape and Nut Dessert Recipe
The above Ancient Roman
recipe for Grape and Nut Dessert is written in totally different way to
today's recipe books! Food and ingredient measurements were
extremely basic - quantities were not often specified in Roman food recipes.
Temperature control was difficult and therefore not
specified! Cooking times were vague - and left to the cook
to decide!
Grape and Nut Dessert Recipe
The content of this Grape and Nut Dessert Recipe
is taken from a collection of Ancient Roman Food Recipes. The
cookery book, containing these old Roman recipes, is called
Apicius, the overall title being 'De re coquinaria' which
means "On the Subject of Cooking".
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