The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 1 (of 3)Athenaeus, of Naucratis
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The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Athenaeus, of Naucratis
Civilization, Greco-Roman; Dinners and dining -- Greece; Greece -- Social life and customs; Homosexuality -- Greece
And Ephippus, in his Diana, makes mention of the κολλίκιοι loaves (and
they are the same as the κόλλαβοι) in these terms--
Eating the collix, baked in well-shaped pan,
By Alexander's Thessalian recipe.
Aristophanes also says, in his Acharnensians--
All hail, my collix-eating young Bœotian.
79. When the conversation had gone on this way, one of the grammarians
present, whose name was Arrian, said--This food is as old as the time of
Saturn, my friends; for we are not rejoicing in meal, for the city is
full of bread, nor in all this catalogue of loaves. But since I have
fallen in with another treatise of Chrysippus of Tyana, which is
entitled a treatise on the Art of Making Bread; and since I have had
experience of the different recipes given in it at the houses of many
of my friends, I will proceed to say something myself also on the
subject of loaves. The kind of loaf which is called ἀρτοπτίκινος, differs
in some respect from that made in a pan, and from that made in an oven.
But if you make it with hard leaven, it will be bright and nice, so that
it may be eaten dry; but if it be made with a looser leaven, then it
will be light but not bright. But the loaf which is made in a pan, and
that which is made in an oven, require a softer kind of leaven. And
among the Greeks there is a kind of bread which is called tender, being
made up with a little milk and oil, and a fair quantity of salt; and one
must make the dough for this bread loose. And this kind of loaf is
called the Cappadocian, since tender bread is made in the greatest
quantities in Cappadocia. But the Syrians call loaves of this kind
λαχμὴ; and it is the best bread made in Syria, because it can be eaten
hot; and it is like a flower. But there is also a loaf called boletinus,
from being made like a mushroom, and the kneading-trough is smeared with
poppies plastered over the bottom of it, on which the dough is placed,
and by this expedient it is prevented from sticking to the trough while
the leaven is mixed in. But when it is put in the oven, then some groats
are spread under on a tile, and then the bread is put on it, and it gets
a most beautiful colour, like cheese which has been smoked.
There is also a kind of bread called strepticias, which is made up with
a little milk, and pepper and a little oil is added, and sometimes suet
is substituted. And a little wine, and pepper, and milk, and a little
oil, or sometimes suet, is employed in making the cake called
artolaganum. But for making the cakes called capuridia tracta, you mix
the same ingredients that you do for bread, and the difference is in the
baking.
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