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Max Miller has done a very entertaining episode on creating a suspected Carthaginian food staple (according to Cato the Elder): Punic porridge or Pultem Punicam.

De Agri Cultura by Cato the Elder 85:

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85 Recipe for Punic porridge: Soak a pound of groats in water until it is quite soft. Pour it into a clean bowl, add 3 pounds of fresh cheese, ½ pound of honey, and 1 egg, and mix the whole thoroughly; turn into a new pot.

Pultem Punicam sic coquito. Libram alicae in aquam indito, facito uti bene madeat. Id infundito in alveum purum, eo casei recentis P. III, mellis P. S, ovum unum, omnia una permisceto bene. Ita insipito in aulam novam.

 

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cato/De_Agricultura/E*.html

 

 

 

 

Here's a good article about the preparation of this Punic porridge:

https://cibiantiquorum.com/punic-porridge/

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