Pertinax Posted October 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 At last the "dormouse moment", or do I smell a rat? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle2617388.ece Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted October 10, 2007 Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 What could one expect from Calabrians! In any case would you kindly let me know how either, or both, varmints taste? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted October 10, 2007 Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 Yummy Why not raise them in captivity specifically for eating? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmo Posted October 11, 2007 Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 succulent young kid What? Eating bread and cheese it's not much a cuisine to talk about... GO, in this place polenta (mămăligă) it's a very popular food and there are many recipes based on it. There are even claims to be a dacian food, but probably not with corn. Next time after you put cheese and stuff, maybe an egg, in the already made polenta, put it in the oven for some minutes. But this is peasant food unfit for an earl. I'm shocked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Dalby Posted October 11, 2007 Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 GO, in this place polenta (mămăligă) it's a very popular food and there are many recipes based on it. There are even claims to be a dacian food, but probably not with corn. Next time after you put cheese and stuff, maybe an egg, in the already made polenta, put it in the oven for some minutes.But this is peasant food unfit for an earl. I'm shocked. No, the Dacians wouldn't have made it with corn (maize) unless they also discovered America! ... In medieval times, before maize reached Europe, polenta and mămăligă were made with barley. "Polenta" is the Latin name for it, still used in Italian; but what's the origin of the Romanian word mămăligă? My Romanian dictionary doesn't even take a guess at the origin of this word. Yes, why not Dacian? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted October 11, 2007 Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 Dr. A.D., 'corn' might be the word for 'wheat' in those parts. I would suppose that those people could make an unreasonable facsimile of polenta with wheat. That alleged word comes from the Old Low Indo-Dacian: mamalikacooka. Salve, Amici! This link goes to a related thread about Corn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmo Posted October 12, 2007 Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 Yes AD, barley was what dacians used to make mămăligă. I'll search for the origins of the word mămăligă, but it's not on the list of presumed dacian words (br Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 At last the "dormouse moment", or do I smell a rat?http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle2617388.ece Wow, to think they'd claim they'd been serving rat! Here's a Roman recipe for stuffed dormouse. GLIRES Lean pork Dormouse meat trimmings Ground black pepper Mixed nuts Several leaves of lacer (rocket/arugula may substitute) A soupcon (trace) of liquamen/garum Pound the mixture until it makes a rough paste suitable for forcing into your dormouse. Put the animal once stuffed in an earthen casserole dish. Boil in a pot with stock. Alternatively you can roast in the oven. (Take care not to let the ears burn!) Gerbil or hamster may work, too, it says.. is there something wrong with guinea pig, though? You can't stuff much into a hamster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmo Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 I have a bottle of greek retsina wine, claimed to be one of the oldest types of wine still around. If the Ancients drank that I pity them. The resin give the wine an unbearable odor close with that of ouzo and rake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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