Cumae
A city on the coast of Campania, founded in the eighth century BCE as the first Greek colony on the Italian mainland.
Today: Cuma, west of Naples, Italy
Roman recipes
Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s
Tyropatinam: accipies lac, quod adversus patinam aestimabis, temperabis lac cum melle quasi ad lactantia, ova quinque ad sextarium mittis, si ad heminam, ova tria. in lacte dissolvis ita ut unum corpus facias, in Cumana colas et igni lento coques. cum duxerit ad se, piper aspargis et inferes.
Milk patina: Take as much milk as you think the dish will need, and sweeten it with honey, as for milk dishes. Add five eggs to a sextarius of milk, or three eggs to a hemina. Beat them into the milk until it is all one mixture. Strain it into a dish of Cumaean ware and cook it over a low fire. When it has set, sprinkle it with pepper and serve.