{"id":118866,"date":"2023-02-11T22:42:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T21:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=118866"},"modified":"2023-02-11T22:42:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T21:42:06","slug":"flower-bulbs-delicacy-in-ancient-times","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/flower-bulbs-delicacy-in-ancient-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower bulbs &#8211; delicacy in ancient times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In ancient times, flower bulbs were widely used as <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/roman-medicine\/\">medicine<\/a> and an aphrodisiac. Interestingly, ancient people also often ate them; however, it was a delicacy of the upper classes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The most popular was sea onion, which was treated as an aphrodisiac and medicine. It was added to wine or vinegar for medicinal purposes, as mentioned by <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/pliny-the-elder\/\">Pliny the Elder<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/ovid\/\">Ovid<\/a> and Varro, in turn, claim that chewing flower bulbs improve potency.<\/p>\n<p>In ancient times, bulbs of grape hyacinth, tassel hyacinth or even poison lily were also popular.<\/p>\n<p>The Roman physician Galen recommended the use of flower bulbs along with lentil soup, which supposedly gives a pleasant warming effect during frosty weather. Many <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/eating-habits-of-romans\/roman-recipes\/\">recipes<\/a> for the use of flower bulbs have also been preserved in the famous culinary book of Apicius &#8211; &#8220;De re coquinaria&#8221;. One of the recipes advises boiling the flower bulbs, then crushing them in a pan, and add thyme, oregano, honey, vinegar, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/defrutum-and-lead-problems\/\">defrutum<\/a>, dates, garum and a little olive oil. Then sprinkle with <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/pepper-in-ancient-rome\/\">pepper<\/a> and serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":118860,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[85,117],"class_list":["post-118866","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-food","kategorie_ciekawostek-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/118866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/118866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=118866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}