Spelt Cake

[bellatrix]

I've been slowly and irregularly going through Cato's recipes. I really liked savillium:

Recipe for the savillum: Take 1/2 pound of flour, 2 1/2 pounds of cheese, and mix together as for the libum; add 1/4 pound of honey and 1 egg. Grease an earthenware dish with oil. When you have mixed thoroughly, pour into a dish and cover with a crock. See that you bake the centre thoroughly, for it is deepest there. When it is done, remove the dish, cover with honey, sprinkle with poppy-seed, place back under the crock for a while, then remove from the fire. Serve in the dish, with a spoon.

Cato, On Agriculture, 84

This sounds really good. I'm going to try it and let you all know how it went. Luckily, cooking is not always an exact science, so we shall see! I wonder how this will turn out, since I'll be baking it in a modern oven as opposed to in a cooking fire. Thank you for sharing this recipe!