Cerberus' Honey Cakes | 2000 Year Old Recipe, Myth and History

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Ancient Roman Honey Cakes/Aliter Dulcia (Another Sweet)
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ¼ cup almonds, chopped
• ¼ tsp ground rosemary or rue
• 1 cup Spelt flour
• ¾ tsp instant dried yeast or 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 Tbsp sweet raisin wine or passum
• 1 egg
• 2 Tbsp honey (and ½ Tbsp more to feed the yeast)
• 6 Tbsp milk

Garnish:
• Honey
• hazelnuts or filberts, chopped

Maza (honeyed barley cakes, I don't recommend this)
• 1 cup barley flour
• ½ cup water
• 3 tbsp clear honey
• 2 tbsp olive oil

Sources*
Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome
The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks, by Frank Pierrepont Graves
Medical Compendium in Seven Books (7nd Century AD), Paulus Aegineta
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Verg.+A.+6.417
Ancient Roman Placenta - Honey Cheesecake - Ancient Dessert (Historical Italian Cooking)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBIzqW_qp1Q
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placenta_cake
A passage in Aeneid
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Verg.+A.+6.417
Cupid and Psyche
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche#Psyche_and_the_underworld