Sohla Recreates Bread & Cheese From Pompeii | Ancient Recipes With Sohla | History

Ancient Recipes with Sohla will be back with more episodes this summer! Check out every episode so far here: The Romans weren’t the first to feast on bread and cheese - but it was a major staple of their diet! In this episode, Sohla bakes Panis Quadratus, a type of bread that was discovered fossilized in the ruins of Pompeii, along with a cheese made from fresh goat’s milk. Roman food archaeologist Farrell Monaco has done extensive research on ancient Roman breads. She proposed that a wooden wheel-like tool may have been used to make Panis Quadratus loaves in Roman bakeries. Learn more about bread in ancient Rome here! Recipe for Panis Quadratus and Goat’s Milk Cheese: For the Bread (Panis Quadratus): Ingredients: 600g biga acida (sourdough starter) 4 tsp salt 500ml water 1000g spelt flour 1. Pour the spelt flour onto the work surface slowly creating a sort of pyramid. U