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Aliter Dulcia III (Another Sweet III)
Aliter Dulcia (Another Sweet) is a traditional Ancient Roman recipe for a classic rich sweet cake made from crumbled cooked pastry with nuts, honey, spices and wine. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Ancient Roman version of: Another Sweet (Aliter Dulcia).
prep time
20 minutes
cook time
40 minutes
Total Time:
60 minutes
Serves:
4
Rating: 
Tags : Spice RecipesBaking RecipesCake RecipesAncient Roman Recipes
Original Recipe
Aliter dulcia: piper, nucleos, mel, rutam et passum teres, cum lacte [et] tracta coques. coagulum coque cum modicis ovis. perfusum melle, aspersum inferes.
Translation
Another Sweet: Mix pepper, [chopped] nuts, honey, rue and passum. Cook in milk and pastry. Thicken with a little egg and bake. Pour honey over, sprinkle with pepper and serve.
Modern Redaction
Ingredients:
250g cooked pastry, finely crumbled
70g ground
almonds
1/2 tsp freshly-ground
black pepper
1/2 tsp dried
rue (or
rosemary), crumbled
60ml
passum
4 tbsp honey
150ml milk (about)
1 egg
Method:
In a bowl, combine the crumbled pastry, pepper, almonds and rue (or rosemary). Beat the egg in a bowl until frothy then work in the passum and honey. Stir this mixture into the pastry mix then add the milk until you have a smooth, thick, batter.
Turn the batter into a springform cake tin then transfer to an oven pre-heated to 180°C and bake for about 25 minutes, or until the cake is firm. Remove from the oven, allow to cool for 10 minutes in the tin then turn out onto a wire rack. The cake works well if topped with a little honey at this point.
Find more recipes from Apicius' De Re Coquinaria along with information on Apicius and his cookbook, all part of this site's Ancient Roman recipes collection.
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