10.1.8 Another Alexandrian sauce for grilled fish pepper, lovage, green coriander, onion, stoned damsons, passum, liquamen, defrutum and cook it. We saw the fishmonger…
Aliter caroetas: elixatas concisas in cuminato oleo modico quoques et inferes; cuminatum coliculorum facies Boil the carrots and chop them in a cumin sauce with…
Minutal of Apricots Apicius contains a number of dishes labeled as Minutal. These dishes are all hashes of one form or another, whether they are…
I sometimes riff on a recipe rather than following them. I grew up cooking by theme rather than by specifics, but with historical cooking, it…
2.4 Lucanicae Lucanicus similiter ut supra scriptum est Teritur piper cuminum satureia ruta petroselinu condimentum bacae lauri, liquamen, et admiscetur pulpa bene tunsa ita ut…
Let’s start with 3.3 Asparagus. Dry the asparagus, put it upright in hot water. That’s the instructions for basic cooked asparagus. I didnt change a…
Uncooked Sauce for a Chicken Put dill seed, dried mint and laser root into a mortar, pour on vinegar, add date, pour on liquamen,…
A salad, or perhaps a chutney, of boiled beets and leeks, dressed with passum and liquamen, cumin and pepper. The joy that is farm…
The yard has finally gotten with the program and begun to offer mint. It is spring, and we will be eating more green things. Yay!…