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Author: * Moravius Horatius -
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Date: May 5, 2004 - 00:13
Salvete
I am a little disappoint to find that your game seems to have ended.
Yes, spelt flour is available once more in health food stores, as is splet bran. I use both in making libum, and for a Roman bread I add both to wheat flour and a little barley flour. If you look in the study of my domus you will see a photo of my bread altar to Ceres on which some of those breads are made of spelt flour.
Ceffyl, mola salsa is not a cake. Perhaps you confused it with the "cakes" of salt that the Vestales Virgines made? The salt cakes were broken up to make a brine, the brine was used to soak spelt grain before it was roasted and ground into a rough flour. The mola salsa was then sprinkled along the backs of a sacrificial animal. They also made a februa from roasted spelt, used by the lictores as a dusting powder to purify a house after someone had died in it. The februa may have been the same as the mola salsa, it was crushed roasted spelt, but there is not a mention of brine used in its production.
Di Deaeque vos semper ament
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