Posca

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Posca (disambiguation) .

The posca was a non-alcoholic drink during the Roman Empire . It is vinegar water . For real Posca you needed wine vinegar and not sour wine. Sour wine is alcoholic and therefore falls under the term Lora . The variety of tipped, sour wine was nevertheless often used in ancient Rome to use up Lora that had gone bad. Due to its easy preparation by mixing water and wine vinegar, Posca became a mass drink. From the ancient cookbook of Apicius there is a recipe for sour bread porridge which Posca names as an ingredient.

See also

• Food culture in the Roman Empire

literature

• Marcus Junkelmann : Panis Militaris - The food of the Roman soldier or the raw material of power . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-8053-2332-8 .
• Marcus Junkelmann: The Legions of Augustus - The Roman soldier in the archaeological experiment . 9th edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-0886-8 .