Yeah, that would make sense. It's been a while since we had those Roman brunches/buffets at school, but I can't remember anything that had loads of pepper in it and I think I'd remember if there was anything extremely peppery.
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2019-06-14 11:08:49 +0000 UTC
Interesting, yes I read pepper on some of the other recipes in the latin cookbook. But some fo the historians wrote that it may not have been pepper but rather a spice similar to nutmeg. Nutmeg would taste better on a cake than pepper.
2019-06-14 07:55:55 +0000 UTC
I had Latin in school and we've had Roman buffets a couple of times, be it for the end of the school year or for school festivals. I'm not sure which cake my mother had to bake once, but I remember her being confused with one of the recipes because it didn't call for any baking powder either and asked me to verify it with my teacher. So I think the recipe on pompeii.org.uk is not that authentic.
Also, I think there is another mistake with the recipe from the website, because I think that it's missing pepper... at least it's an ingredient that is actually in the name of the cake: piperata means peppered. You can tell that the English word pepper and the Latin word piper are related. However, I'm not so sure how pepper would taste in this cake (and how much pepper you should put into the cake)