Today we present the first of two videos about the diet of Roman and Byzantine legionaries. This time, we prepare two fundamental army foods, buccellatum and cured pork fatback, called lardum or laridum, paired with a well-known ancient beverage, posca.
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Ingredients:
durum wheat flour
sourdough
cured pork fatback
olive oil
red wine vinegar
dill
pennyroyal
salt
Sala cattabia
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Music by Lilium Aeris
Andrea Tuffanelli – tympanum
Serena Fiandro – flute
First Delfic Hymn – Athenaeus 128 BCE
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