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dolariSo ever since I started researching the Roman culture for the AWFW story and came across a page of Roman Recipes, I've been dying to try something.
The problem is, when I cook, hazmat teams get called out, fire alarms are activated, and PEOPLE DIE.
However, these are are recipes from ancient Rome. They didn't eat anythign fancy (well, the occasional dormouse), and they didn't use many special cooking techniques (lots of "leave it out in the sun"), so I figure how can I go wrong? The answer is "new and exciting ways" but we'll wait to see what happens....
The recipe is fairly straight forward:
600g strong white flour
125ml warm water
1½ tsp dried yeast
1 tsp sugar
60ml olive oil
75ml warm milk
½ tsp sea salt
The only missing ingredient? My camera...can't find the darned thing. Sidekick 3 to the rescue! (To make up for the lack of resolution, I've put the water in a Powerpuff Girls' cup).
Put the sugar, water and yeast in a cup and let it sit for 15 minutes. I don't cook hardly anything ever due to the aforementioned Death of Mrs. Ellis' Third Grade Class, so I've never actually SEEN yeast in action. Let's watch! It's SCIENCE!
No, those spots aren't bugs. They're PROTIEN.
In the meantime, mix everything else in a bowl...
...as seen here and let it sit for an hour.
After an hour, it goes in a well greased cooking pan (greased with olive oil no less!) and into the oven it goes at 250 degrees for 40 minutes. Alas, I didn't get a picture of the dough, but let me tell you...I'm not too optimistic. The recipe says the sough should be "supple." I don't even understand the word much less what the dough represents. It was a greasy sloppy mess, not a dough.
But when I pored it, it poured JUST like cake batter...and after it's hour...it rose!
So how did it come out? We'll find out in 15 minutes! Will I survive? Will it crawl out of the oven on it's own? WILL THE UNIVERSE COLLAPSE UNDER THE FACT THAT IT MAY COME OUT CORRECTLY?
...stay tuned...
The problem is, when I cook, hazmat teams get called out, fire alarms are activated, and PEOPLE DIE.
However, these are are recipes from ancient Rome. They didn't eat anythign fancy (well, the occasional dormouse), and they didn't use many special cooking techniques (lots of "leave it out in the sun"), so I figure how can I go wrong? The answer is "new and exciting ways" but we'll wait to see what happens....
The recipe is fairly straight forward:
600g strong white flour
125ml warm water
1½ tsp dried yeast
1 tsp sugar
60ml olive oil
75ml warm milk
½ tsp sea salt
The only missing ingredient? My camera...can't find the darned thing. Sidekick 3 to the rescue! (To make up for the lack of resolution, I've put the water in a Powerpuff Girls' cup).
Put the sugar, water and yeast in a cup and let it sit for 15 minutes. I don't cook hardly anything ever due to the aforementioned Death of Mrs. Ellis' Third Grade Class, so I've never actually SEEN yeast in action. Let's watch! It's SCIENCE!
No, those spots aren't bugs. They're PROTIEN.
In the meantime, mix everything else in a bowl...
...as seen here and let it sit for an hour.
After an hour, it goes in a well greased cooking pan (greased with olive oil no less!) and into the oven it goes at 250 degrees for 40 minutes. Alas, I didn't get a picture of the dough, but let me tell you...I'm not too optimistic. The recipe says the sough should be "supple." I don't even understand the word much less what the dough represents. It was a greasy sloppy mess, not a dough.
But when I pored it, it poured JUST like cake batter...and after it's hour...it rose!
So how did it come out? We'll find out in 15 minutes! Will I survive? Will it crawl out of the oven on it's own? WILL THE UNIVERSE COLLAPSE UNDER THE FACT THAT IT MAY COME OUT CORRECTLY?
...stay tuned...
