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Pliny's any-season leaven. Barley meal and water are made into two-pound cakes, baked on a hot hearth or in an earthen dish under ash and charcoal until reddish, then shut in vessels until they sour. Soaked in water, they give a liquid leaven. This entry is a text-only reconstruction.
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Recipe
Amounts from a sourcePliny fixes only the weight of each cake, two Roman pounds.
What changes:Barley meal and water are made into cakes of two pounds each
Step 1 of 4
Make two-pound cakes of barley meal and water
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Output: raw barley cakes.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Pliny's any-season leaven. Barley meal and water are made into two-pound cakes, baked on a hot hearth or in an earthen dish under ash and charcoal until reddish, then shut in vessels until they sour. Soaked in water, they give a liquid leaven. This entry is a text-only reconstruction.
Older vetch leaven for barley breadBarley bread was once leavened with meal of bitter vetch or chickling vetch, 2 pounds to 5 semodii (two and a half modii) of barley meal.
Leaven of Pliny's own daySome of the bread meal, kneaded before salting, boiled to a porridge and left to sour; or, most often, a piece of dough kept from the day before.
Safety
The WHO notes that the moulds that make mycotoxins grow on cereals, often in warm, damp conditions, and that most mycotoxins survive food processing. This leaven is shut in covered vessels until it sours and is then soaked in water, so a reconstruction from the text alone should not be treated as a tested or safe recipe.