That's so interesting! In Italy we call "lievito" both yeast and baking powder, so the baking powder mentioned in the original recipe might have been yeast, but it was misinterpreted when translated (if it was translated from the italian version of the website or from a recipe written in Italian. That sounds plausible!) We call baking powder "lievito in polvere" or "lievito per dolci", when we need to be specific. That roughly means "powdered yeast" and "yeast for desserts", so I think it comes natural for most of us to translate "lievito" in a cake recipe with "baking powder".

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79Ad....9 years after Jerusalem fell

It’s crazy that in the past they’d do all these crazy things just to get one item, (Ie. A massive chiseled stone piece for decor) but if you asked anyone here and let them use modern technology I doubt they’d do it

I have made this recipe twice. Without eggs and olive oil it's not very good. Romans would have used grape must boiled down by one third, half, two thirds. You can buy this in Middle Eastern markets and is called grape syrup. If you use wine it will kill the baking powder. A touch of cinnamon helps.

"Dulcia piperata" literally means "Pepper dessert", so this recipe was definitely retouched by a modern hand. Here's an original recipe for dulcia piperata I found in "De Re Coquinaria" by Marcus Gavius Apicius: "Piper, nucleos, mel, rutam et passum teres, cum lacte et tracta coques. Coagulum coque cum modicis ovis. Perfusum melle , piper apersum inferes." Which translates to: "You will grind pepper, pine nuts, honey, rue and straw wine, you will cook it with milk and (puff) pastry. Cook the mixture with few eggs. You will serve after having sprinkled it with pepper and honey." I think it would be interesting trying to recreate it with these ingredients and without proper measurements, I might have to try it!

Ann is so dedicated to the authenticity of these recipes and I think it's awesome

I think ann forgot the white grape juice

I LOVE the narrator's voice.

Sorry. You didn’t harvest the honey from bee hives and you didn’t hand grind the cinnamon 🤔 Don’t even get me started on the WINE! IDK if I can trust you after seeing these shortcuts! 😒

hi im 14 and i was wondering if this is ok to eat because of the wine

With what can we replace the milk? I can’t eat diary products :(

The reason the term “daily grind” exists, is because it’s referring to the daily chore of making flour for bread,

I want to go to Pompeii so bad!

Can you suggest what I can use instead of wine? I don't drink🙊

my dad made this exact recipe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is sooooooooooooooooooo tasty!

😭😭😭😭😭 My cake didnt rise and ive set it aside for 30 minutes now... Could you say how long you let it rise, and how?

Hello old lady Ann,. notice me:-P

I wonder how it would've been like today if the volcano didn't erupt, or if the ash didn't preserve the place.

That's way too much baking powder, it should be ⅓ of the quantity you used

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So during lockdown I've learned how to make my own sourdough starter, and that's why I think, the batter would have been left to ferment for a bit. The flour and the grape wine / juice would just naturally create a wild yeast sourdough and if you pop the cakes in the oven then, they'd rise. Sure, people didn't have baking powder or a nice sachet of dry yeast but damn, people knew how to make bread! It's, like, the oldest staple of humanity besides beer/wine xD I think we've actually lost a lot of that knowledge to be fair...

wouldn’t you dry the rosemary first then ground it?

My mom has a modern wheat mill. I'd like to get one too as I have a 5-lb bucket of whole wheat that'll need grinding

going by the picture I would say the one with no yeast is closer. notice in the picture how it looks more like a pie than a cake. the height versus the width says to me there was little or no rising involved. also things back then were more dense, even if you go back 200 years this holds true. plus like you said the first one was more fruity tasting and that was what was considered a sweet in ye olden times.

Wait, ground cinnamon? Shouldn't that be done by hand too? (JK)

This was literally the dish of the elite. Cinnamon in Europe was only ever imported from traders in Egypt until about 1500 years after Pompeii was buried. It was available, but noone knew where it really came from, so it was probably stupidly expensive. Any recipe calling for its use, well...

a sourdough starter would've been a much better fit also raw honey but i know that one's a bit more of a pain to find

People used natron, which contains sodium bicarbonate, prior to the invention of baking powder. Perhaps that's what the Romans would've used. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natron

next video the 200000 birthday cake XD

this is from 19

There's actually a plack that states pompeii want destroyed until the late 1600's. It wasn't lost to history because lots of maps have it and the surrounding cities, mountains and rivers on them. The aqueduct system was installed before it was destroyed in the 1400's.

I almost forgot i was watching cakegoddess Ann Reardon, until the vid got to 01:32 when i LoL'ed and liked

Flour are supposed to age ?! Not consummed fresh?!

This video is... GOLD

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Romans did have corn 1:02 . Corn started to be popular specially in northern Italy after Columbus discovered the American continent. Corn was not an European plant. I love your channel :) . Thank you for sharing this.

I'm love history, but I'm also celiac. You see my problem?

Blimey, your comment section is brilliant!! 💙

Can we talk about how she tries to make these as similar to the older ones like grounding the rosemary, almonds, and wheat (she tried to at least)?

(am just so angry when a lot of dough srays in the biwl) but am loving tgese vids 🤩

Just want to say I made this for my professor pre pandemic and he loved it!

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I use a wood burning stove to cook

how about Cream of tartar

On your Quern you were letting to much wheat down the hole at a time. Try just a few kernels at a time and see how it does. To many will easily lift the stone and it will not work as the weight of the stone is spread over to many at a time.

They were most likely made with honey, eggs, and spelt flour. they used Eggs as a livening agent and and knew about sourdough, they had Barm from beer fermentation and a kind of yeast from the foam from the skins of wine grapes but that was just about it.

Tried this today. It was a very enriching experience but I don’t think this recipe (or the end product) was for me, haha. Glad I tried it but I’ll leave this one to you!

Did anyone else see how the three bowls looked like the powerpuff girls?

I think you forgot the white grape juice

im surpised women in medieval paintings weren't depicted as toned/muscular bc if they had to grind everything they needed to use to cook they probably were

I cant believe i missed this!!! I thought this is the new video 😭😭😭

Passum is pretty easy to make. Just use raisin pulp instead of fresh grapes to make the brew

Tip: When using a Model Grinder use little teeny amounts of kernels. That is what it was made to handle. Don't fill it up with real world amounts. That is just dumb. (almost as dumb as me having to edit this 3 times because of autocomplete)

Cia is said like chia, I sounds like a long E and a is said like ah dool-chia pe-pay-rah-tah

Is love to try these but I'm extremely allergic to nuts

What a fascinating video. Excellent!

I have a Miller in my village

They would have never used that mill to grind corn. Wheat and other old world grains yes, but not corn. Corn(maize) was only available after America was discovered :) small detail there you over looked.

This intrigued me so I tried it out. I only had cows milk (they would have used goat's if I'm not mistaken) preground wheat flour but I did grind my own almonds and used a sweet white wine since access to parssum was unrealistic and I willa dmit to lacking patience to turn white wine into a pseudo parssum with raisins. And I went with the yeast option for levening I really like this little cake. The rosemary was an interesting flavor addition and I like the texture variety you get with the nuts. This is a treat I will definitely make again! Maybe in the future I can get my paws on more authentic ingredients, but this was a lovely video and I was very excited to make it!

Not corn. Europeans didn’t have corn until after 1492 when they got it from my ancestors and others.

So much batter was left in her mixing bowl!

Isn't it insane that what destroyed them also preserved them...

Next Video : 5000 year old meat stew recipes | How to Cook that Ann Reardon

Who thumbed down this wholesome video??????? 😂

The only thing with the baking powder I'm not sure if you did it or not was to use 1/3 of the amount because you split the mixture. Maybe that's why is tasted of baking powder

im gonna try this maybe for this Christmas

Oh yes, I remember my lessons about the Pompeiians being the originators of *”instant dry yeast!”* 😆❤️ If you’re trying to be “authentic,” you GOTTA harvest your own yeast from the environment!

I'm fascinated with cooking from the past, mostly 19th century but some medieval as well. I've noticed a lot of of recipes seem to add nuts, which I guess proves the theory that nut allergies didn't exist back then. But sometimes I have to modify the recipe to exclude nuts because of my son's nut allergy. I really would like to try this though! A honey cake sounds good!

"ground armonds"

Can not help to compare it with Swedish cheesecake! With almond, little bitter almond, as an important ingredient! No cheese needed, but a bit of the process is done like when cheese is done, with the use of ostlöpe ( Swedish for cheese rennet).

1:20 Not Mozaic but Mozayeek😂.

The instrument you used for grinding is called " திருவை " in South India. We have been using it for centuries. Its utter happiness to see these different types of recipes. Very curious and interesting.

They probably used oil to help grind the rosemary and almonds so the cake didn’t need additional oil

Very interesting. Im not sure I’d like a cake made with wine. However, this recipe being from 2000 years ago, the Italians knew what they were doing.

Any Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus/trials of Apollo fans hatin' on nero?

I made this today. It is really easy and tasty. I made one batch with grape juice, milk and yeast and one batch with 150 ml German Federweisser (fermented grape juice) no milk no yeast or baking powder. Both are good. I also added raisins to one batch and chopped dried apricots to the other. I might try cranberries next.

i never knew the ruins of Pompeii were so beautiful. I don't know why I imagined them as a wreck. I want to visit there now! This cake would probably go well with some of the wine itself. Great video!

No offense to him but it was absolutely Nero that had the cake on a gigantic stand in a villa like that

we need an Anne Readon x Mrs Crocombe collab, then 2020 will finally be good

Pompei

SMH you kids have it so easy these days🙍‍♀️

The honey cake would be pronounced "duhl-key-ah pih-pair-rah-tair".

I was there just last year! It was absolutely incredible to walk on the literal streets these people used to walk on and hear all about the history!

It doesn't look like you adjusted the baking powder by a third which would have been an issue.

I have heard that heating honey makes it poisonous. So, does adding honey to hot food make it hot? Isn't it bad? I'm just curious to know...

It would have been easier to grind dried rosemary in the mortar: you can leave the branches of rosemary tied with a cord under the sunlight for a few days and they'll dry. The smell is almost the same of the fresh one. (P.s.: sorry for my imperfect English, I'm Italian)

ok who is the cute boy at the beginning? 😳

I guess its 2001 years old now

what about using sour milk for a rise, which is what most people did before baking powder (clabber girl = clabbered milk)

Now i see why cakes were for birthdays only..

This was the best hangover video

I really love that you actually try the wayit would have done 2000 years ago like ponding crushing the almond manually and other thing

looks great but i would only cake flour . whole wheat makes my stop breathing

I think Ann would be a really good grandmother

They had corn in Pompeii?🤯

I Love the way you say "next"

Chacki pricing and piecing Only indians will understand

So that's how you make wholewheat bread...!

Corn? I thought romans wouldn’t have corn as the America’s wasn’t explored yet