DULCIA PIPERATA (Honey Cake)

(Apic. 7, 11, 4) Ingredients:

• 140 gr plain flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp ground rosemary
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 70 gr ground almonds
• 50 ml white grape juice
• 50 ml passum(or other 50ml white grape juice)
• 2 tbsp honey
• Milk
• Chopped hazelnuts

Instructions:
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Mix the flour in a bowl with the baking powder. Add the rosemary, almonds and cinnamon to the bowl. Mix well. In a measuring jug mix the wine with the grape juice and honey. Add enough milk to the jug to make the liquid up to 200mls / 8flozs. Pour the liquid into the dry ingredients and mix well. Pour the mixture into a well greased 22cms / 9 inch round tin. Bake at 190ºC/ 375ºF/ Gas Mark 5 for about 30 minutes. When the cake is still warm, spread liquid honey over the top and sprinkle it with chopped hazelnuts.

 

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Walking further down Via dell’Abbondanza in the direction of the Porta di Sarno Gate, we reach Pompeii’s equivalent of a ‘fast-food’ restaurant, where warm meals could be bought and eaten on the spot. Coins for a total weight of about 3 kg, equivalent in worth to about 680 sesterces, were found in one of the wall recesses. Given the large quantity of change (374 asses and 1,237 quadrantes, each worth one of quarter of an as), these were probably the takings of a single day’s business. The shop is completed by a sacellum dedicated to Mercury and Dionysus and a small shrine for the tutelary deities of the household. The publican’s own apartment extended to the rear of t ... continue

(Apic. 8, 7, 17) Ingredients:

• 750 g pork chops
• 100 ml white wine
• 4 tbsp Liquamen (or soya sauce)
• 4 tbsp water or broth
• 4 tbsp cider vinegar
• 4 tbsp olive oil

Instructions:
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Heat a frying pan, add a little oil and cook the pork chops until they are nearly done. Set the chops aside and clean the pan. Add the remainder of the ingredients to the cleaned pan and place the chops in the liquid. Bring this to the boil and continue cooking the chops, turning them occasionally, until they are done. Place the chops on a the plat ... continue

Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.