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Moretum is a herb cheese spread that the Ancient Romans ate with bread.[1] A typical moretum was made of herbs, fresh cheese, salt, oil and some vinegar. Optionally, different kinds of nuts could be added. The contents were crushed together in a mortar, hence the name.

Moretum

Moretum in the mortar
Type	Spread
Place of origin	Ancient Rome
Main ingredients	Herbs, fresh cheese, salt, oil, vinegar
Media: Moretum

Recipes

A recipe can be found in the poem of the same name in the Appendix Vergiliana.[2] De re rustica, book XII of Columella contains further recipes for moretum. The variant with pine nuts is most often compared to pesto.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Ancient Roman cuisine
• List of cheese dishes
• List of spreads

References

External links

• Media related to Moretum at Wikimedia Commons
• Appendix Vergiliana in Latin
• Columella at The Latin Library
• Columella Books I–IV in English translation at LacusCurtius

На других языках

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[ru] Моретум

Море́тум (лат. morētum) — простая закуска в древнеримской кухне, которая намазывалась на хлеб.

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