Conditum
Conditum, piperatum, or konditon (κόνδιτον) is a family of spiced wines in ancient Roman and Byzantine cuisine.
The
date seeds and dates soaked in wine.[1]
In the
piquant
wine.
A 10th-century redaction of an earlier Greek Byzantine agricultural work brings down the relative portions of each ingredient:
Let eight scruples of pepper [corns] washed and dried and carefully pounded; one sextarius of Attic honey, and four or five sextarii of old white wine, be mixed.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Conditum Paradoxum Archived 2018-03-08 at the Wayback Machine – recipe in Latin and German, read on February 03, 2012
- Avodah Zarah2:3 [11b]
- ^ Geoponika - Agricultural Pursuits. Vol. 1. Translated by Owen, T. London: University of Oxford. 1805., p. 260
Bibliography
- Andrew Dalby, Food in the Ancient World from A to Z, 2003 ISBN 0-415-23259-7
