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

Moretum is a herb cheese spread that the Ancient Romans ate with bread. 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.

Recipes

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

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Moretum para niños

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