Menu:
Rose Wine
Snow Cooled Alexandrian Loaf
Roman Coleslaw
Lentils with Chestnuts
Sausages with Mustard
Stuffed Chicken in Sour Sauce
Trimalchio's Pastry Eggs
Raisin-stuffed Beets
Fried Carrots
Char-Broiled Leeks
Bulger with Nuts and Raisins
Stuffed Dates in Honey
Libation--Toast to the Gods--Sutis verborum (Let's Eat!)Wednesday, January 16, 2002
Rosatum--Rose Wine--Eubulus, the Greek comic poet, reminds us that, “the first cup of wine is for health, the second for love and pleasure. the third for sleep: here all should go home. The fourth is for wildness, the fifth for’ shouting. the sixth for riot, the seventh for black eyes. the eighth for police, the ninth for anger. the tenth for insanity.”
Rosatum sic Facies: folia rosarum, albo sublato, lino inseris et sutilis facias, et vino quam plurimas infundes, ut septem diebus in vino sint. post septem dies rosam de vino tollis, et alias sutiles recentes similiter mittis, ut per dies septem in vino requiescant, et rosam eximis. similiter et tertio facies et rosam eximis, et vinum colas, et, cum ad bibendum voles uti, addito melle rosatum conficies. sane custodito ut rosam a rore sicam et optimam mittas. Similiter, ut supra, et de <viola> violatium facies, et eodem modo melle temperabis.
Rose wine. Rose wine you will make like this: Thread together rose-leaves from which the white part has been removed, and steep as many as possible in wine for seven days. After seven days take the rose-leaves out of the wine, and in the same way put in other fresh rose leaves threaded together, to rest seven days in wine, then take them out. Repeat a third time, take out the rose-leaves, strain the wine, and, when you want to use it for drinking, add honey to make rose wine. But take care to use the best rose-leaves, when the dew has dried off them. Make violet wine in the same way as above, and mix with honey in the same way.
Rose Wine
2 bottles red wine
1/4 cup honey
1/8 tsp. rose water
2 fresh roses (old fashioned pink), washed
Pour the wine into a punch bowl. Add the honey and rose water, and stir gently. Scatter the petals from the two fresh roses over the surface of the wine. Serve in individual glasses, cups or goblets. Serves 4-6
Gustum (Gustatio, Promulsis) Hor d'oevres--accompanied by mulsum. It could consist of eggs prepared in various ways, raw and cooked vegetables including, asparagus, cucumbers, pumpkins, herbs, lettuces, mushrooms, salt fish, dormice, mussels and snails.
Alexandrian Cumin Bread*--I could not find a recipe for this particular bread per se in the book that I have but I did find a reference to it "Alexandrian bread was presumably a bread invented by the people of Alexandria, possibly made of grain from there. It contained according to Pliny (Nat. Hist., XX, 15, 58 (163)), cumin.
Alexandrian Cumin Bread
3 cups unbleached, all purpose flour
1 package dried yeast
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cumin seed ground
1 cup plus 3 ounces lukewarm water
Place the flour, yeast, salt and ground cumin in a large mixing bowl. Blend well. Add the water, and mix the dough for 2-3 minutes. Until all the water is absorbed and evenly distributed. The dough will be damp and very sticky, but no internal dry areas should appear by the end of the mixing, if they do, mix a few minutes more or add a little more water and mix again.
Let the dough rest 5 minutes. Now sprinkle 1 or 2 tablespoons flour over the dough and knead, either in the bowl or on a lightly floured surface 5-10 minutes, until the dough is smooth and elastic and slightly sticky (add more flour if needed). Let dough rest for 2 minutes more. The dough should now be very smooth and easy to handle. Knead 30 seconds more, return the dough to the bowl, cover the bowl with a dish towel or large plate and let rise at room temperature at least 3 hours. The dough should almost triple in size.
Flour the top of the dough lightly and punch it down, remove the dough from the bowl, form the dough into a rectangular loaf and place in a well greased loaf pan, 9 1/4 inches by 5 1/4 inches by 2 3/4 inches. Cover with a towel and let rise 1 hour until nicely risen.
Bake in preheated 400 degree oven for 35 minutes, or until browned on top. The bottom should sound hollow when tapped with one finger. Yield: 1 Loaf.
Aliter Sala Cattabia--Snow Cooled Alexandrian Loaf
Aliter Sala Cattabia: panem Alexandrinum excavabis, in posca macerabis. adicies in mortarium piper, mel, mentam, alium, coriandrum viride, caseum bubulum sale conditum, aquam, oleum. insuper nivem, et inferes.
Sala Cattabia, Another Method. Hollow out an Alexandrian loaf, soak in water mixed with vinegar. Put in the mortar pepper, honey, mint, garlic, fresh coriander, salted cows milk cheese, water and oil. <arrange similar ingredients as in two previous recipes (trust me...no chicken liver or goat sweetbreads will be present ;-P >, cool in snow, and serve.
Snow Cooled Alexandrian Loaf
1 loaf Alexandrain bread (see recipe above)
3 tablespoons white vinegar
1 ounce cold water
2 chicken breasts or 1/2 chicken
1 cucumber peeled and sliced thin
4 ounces dry ricotta or feta cheese
1/4 cup pine nuts
1 tsp. capers
1 ounce onion finely chopped
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/4 cup honey
2 tsp. mint
2 cloves garlic finely minced
2 coriander leaves choppped (Opt.)
3 ounces olive oil
Bake broil or saute chicken until cooked thoroughly. Let cool, then bone and dice.
Prepare the bread loaf to make a "box" witha detached cover: With a long sharp knife, make an incision through the top crust of the loaf parallel with one end of hte loaf about 1/2 inch from that end. Leaving a half inch border all around the loaf, remove carefully the top crust. Cut and pull out the soft part of the bread, try to make a container with interior walls as straight as possible, leaving 1/2 inch thick sides and a 1/2 inch thick bottom. Leave the top crust 1/4 inch thick.
Sprinkle the interior of the boxed loaf and the underside of it's top crust or the cover with the vinegar mixed with one ounce cold water. Fill the box first with a layer of chicken, sliced cucumbers, cheese, pine nuts, capers and chopped onion.
Combine the pepper, honey, mint, garlic, coriander and 1/4 cup olive oil, mix well and pour into the box. Replace top crust, and chill the entire loaf in the refrierator or in snow, 1 hour. Slice and serve. Serves 8
*to serve fill a bowl with "snow" (shaved ice), lay the loaf on a plate, and lay the plate on the snow. The use of snow and garlic suggest that this dish is from non-urban origins.
Aliter Cymas--Roman Coleslaw
Aliter: cauliculi elixati in patina compositi condiuntur liquamine, oleo, mero, cumino, piper asparges, porrum, cuminum, coriandrum viride super concides.
Another Method: Arrange bioled cabbages in a shallow pan and dress with liquamen, oil, wine, cumin. Sprinkle with pepper, chopped leeks, caraway-seed, and fresh coriander.
*the recipe suggests that this could be prepared ahead of time and served cold or room temp, or served immediately warmed.
Roman Coleslaw
1 medium cabbage
3 ounces olive oil
1 tablespoon liquamen*
1 tbs. white wine
1tsp. caraway seeds
1 leek, trimmed and chopped fine
1 coriander leaf chopped
S&P to taste
Peel off the tough outer layers of the cabbage and core the remainder. Boil the cabbage in enough water to cover 15-20 minutes until tender. Drain, then rinse in cold water until cool, drain again and chop well.
Mix together remaining ingredients and pour over the chopped cabbage. Mix well and serve. Serves 8
Lenticula de Castaneis--Lentils with Chestnuts
Lenticulam De Castaneis: accipies caccabum novum, et castaneas purgatas diligenter mittis. adicies aquam et nitrum modice, facies ut coquatur. cum coquitur, mittis in mortario piper, cuminum, semen coriandri, mentam rutam, laseris radicem, puleium, fricabis. suffundis acetum, <adicies> mel, liquamen, aceto temperabis, et super castaneas coctas refundis. adicies oleum, facies ut ferveat. cum bene ferbuerit, tudiclabis [ut in mortario teres]. gustas: si quid deest, addes. cum in boletar miseris, addes oleum viride.
Lentils with Chestnuts <Boil the lentils> Take a new saucepan and put in the carefully cleaned chestnuts. Add water and a little cooking-soda. Put on the fire to cook. When cooked put in the mortar pepper, cumin, coriander-seed, mint, rue, asafoetida root, and pennyroyal; pound. Moisten with vinegar, add honey and liquamen, blend with vinegar, and pour over the cooked chestnuts. Add oil, bring to the boil. When it is boiling well, stir. <Mix with the lentils.> Taste: if something is missing, add it. When you have put it in the serving-dish add best oil.
Lentils with Chestnuts
1 cup lentils, washed
12 chestnuts
1/4 tsp. each grd, pepper, coriander, cumin
1 tsp. mint
1/4 tsp. fresh rue (opt.)
1/4 tsp. pennyroyal (opt. *pennyroyal is an abortificant and should not be used or eaten by those expecting babies. I will not be using it in this feast, but include it here for historic purpose.)
pinch asafetida (opt.)
1 ounce wine vinegar
1 ounce honey
1 tablespoon liquamen*
1 ounce olive oil
If the lentils are not pre soaked, cover them with water and soak overnight, drain. Boil the lentils in 3 cups water for 30-40 minutes, or until tender. Drain any excess water. Meanwhile boil chestnuts in water for 20 minutes. Drain. Rinse under cold water, then peel back the outer shell and inner skins from both haves. Add the chestnut halves to the lentils, then add remaining ingredients and stir well. Heat thoroughly and serve warm. If desired, add more honey, oil, wine, or salt. Serves 8
Farcimina--Sausages
Aliter Farcimina--coctam alicam et tritam cum pulpa concisa et trita una cum pipere et liquamine et nucleis. farcies intestinum et elixabis, deinde cum sale assabis et cum sinapi inferes, vel sic concisum in disco.
Another Method: Make a mixture of boiled spelt-grits and coarsely minced meat that has been pounded with pepper, liquamen, and pine-kernels. Stuff a sausage skin and boil. Then grill with salt and serve with mustard, or serve boiled cut up on a round dish.
*Mustard according to Columella, De re Rustica, XII, 57
Carefully clean mustard seed and sift, then wash in cold water and when well washed leave for two hours in the water. Then remove, press it with your hands and put in a new or a thoroughly cleaned mortar, add pine-kernals which should be as fresh as possible and almonds, pound carefully and pour vinegar on.
*According to Pallidus, VIII, 9: grind to a fine powder 1 1/2 pints mustard seed, add 5 pounds honey, 1 pound spanish oil, 1 pint strong vinegar, mix carefully and use.
Sausages with Mustard
1 pound meat (chuck cubes or pork shoulder cubes)
4 tablespoons bulgur (parched cracked wheat)
1 tsp. grd. pepper
2 1/2 tbs. liquamen*
2 tbs. pine nut
mustard
salt
Boil the bulgur in water to cover until tender. Drain
Chop the meat into small pieces about the size of pine nuts. Transfer into a bowl and pound well with a mallet or pestle. Add the cooked bulgur, pepper, liquamen and pine nuts. Pound again. If your liquamen is weak, you may want to add a little salt to the mixture.
Stuff this sausage mixture into small sausage casings, making 12 3inch by 1 inch sausages. If sausage casings are unavailable. Use cheesecloth.
Simmer sausages in 1/2 inch water for 1 hour covered, turning them occasionally. Remove from the water and unwrap carefully.
Now place the unwrapped sausages on a charcoal grill, sprinkle with a little salt and grill for 15 minutes, turning them gently. Serve with prepared mustard. Makes 12 sausages.
*if using cheescloth in place of organic sausage casings, cut cheesecloth(double thickness) into twelve 8" x 5" rectangles. Brush them with 1/2 pound (1 cup) melted shortening. Then form one sausage from the meat mixture with your hands and place at the base of one rectangle along the smaller edge. Roll up the cheesecloth tightly, making sure that the sausage maintains it's cylindrical shape. Tie each end of the sausage with a string, first twisting lightly to make the sausage compact. Repeat.
Mensae Primae-- the Main Coarse--the primae mensae were devoted to roast and boiled meats, poultry and meat delicacies (some of which could be used in gustatio). During this course wine was drunk, usually mixed with water and in moderate quantities.
Pullus Farsilis--Stuffed Chicken in Sour Sauce
Pullus Farsilis: pullum sicuti liquaminatum a cervice expedies. teres piper, ligusticum, zingiber, pulpam caesam, alicam elixam, teres cerebellum ex iure coctum, ova confringis et commisces, ut unum corpus efficias. liquamine temperas et oleum modice mittis, piper integrum, nucleos abundanter. fac impensam et imples pullum vel porcellum, ita ut laxamentum habeat. similiter in capo facies. ossibus eictis coques.
Stuffed Chicken. Draw chicken --as for chicken in liquamen--from the neck. Pound pepper, lovage, ginger, chopped meat, boiled spelt-grits; pound a brain cooked in stock, break eggs into it, and work all this into a smooth mixture. Blend with liquamen and add a little oil, whole peppercorns, and plenty of pine-kernels. Stuff with this mixture a chicken or a sucking pig, leaving a little room. You can use the same stuffing also for capon. Cook it with the bones removed.
Pullum Oxyzomum: olei acetabulum maius, <laseris> satis modice, liquaminis acetabulum minus, aceti acetabulum perquam minus, piperis scripulos sex, petroselini scripulum, porri fasciculum.
Chicken with Sauce Piquant A good 1/2 gill of oil, a little asafoetida, just under 1/2 gill liquamen, the same amount of vinegar, 6 scruples of pepper, 1 scruple of parsley, and a bunch of leeks.
Stuffed Chicken in Sour Sauce
1 whole chicken
Stuffing
1/4 tsp. grd. pepper
4 celery leaves chopped
2 tsp. ground ginger
1/4 pound ground chuck or chuck cubes, or ground pork, or pork shoulder cubes
3/4 cup bulgur
1 pork or calf brain boiled and mashed (optional--not using, can't find any brains in the area)
1 egg beaten
1 ounce liquamen*
1 tbs. olive oil
10 peppercorns
1/4 cup pine nuts
Sour Sauce
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup liquamen*
1/2 cup white vinegar
1/4 tsp. black pepper
1 tbs.parsley
4 leeks or green onions chopped
pinch asafetida (optional)
Bone the chicken as follows: cut off the wings at tips. Slit the skin of the chicken down the middle of the breast, then pull the skin down each side of the bird all the way to the legs. Try not to tear the skin. Separate the breast meat from the underlying breast bone and ribcage on each side. Remove the breat meat and put aside. Cut out the breast bone and ribs from the chicken and discard. Also remove the wishbone. Lastly, find the long white tendon in each half of the breast meat and pull it out of the meat, discard the tendon. The chicken is now ready to stuff.
Boil the bulgur in the water to cover until tender. Drain. Cut the meat into very fine bits an dpound well, if using ground meat you may omit this step. Combine the meat with ground pepper, ginger, celery leaves, bulgur and brain, blend well. You may not need all of the bulgur, depending upon the size of the chicken. Add the egg, liquamen, oil, peppercorns and pine nuts to the mixture and mix thoroughly. Now fill the cavity of the chicken with the mixture. Drape the breast meat over the filling and reconstruct the original shape of the chicken. Gently stretch the skin back over the breast and sew the skin together. Also sew closed the neck and rear openings. Place chicken in a roasting pan and cook at 350 degree's for approximately one hour, 15 minutes or until liquid runs clear when pierced with a fork (about 25 minutes per pound).
Meanwhile, prepare the sauce. Combine all ingredients in a saucepan, bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes. When the chicken is cooked, remove from the oven, take out the stitching and place on a serving dish. Serve the sauce separately. Serves 4
Trimalchio's Pastry Eggs *I could not find a period recipe in the books I have, so offer up this selection from Petronius' Satyricon to support this dish.*
"...a tray was brought in with a basket on it. There sat a wooden hen, its wings spread round it the way hens are when they are broody. Two slaves hurried up and as the orchestra played a tune they began searching through the straw and dug out peahens' eggs, which they distributed to the guests.
Trimalchio turned to look at this little scene and said: 'My friends, I gave orders for that bird to sit on some peahens' eggs. I hope to goodness they are not starting to hatch. However, let's try them and see if they are still soft.'
We took up our spoons (weighing at least half a pound each) and cracked the eggs, which were made of rich pastry. To tell the truth, I nearly threw away my share, as the chicken seemed already formed. But I heard a guest who was an old hand say: 'There should be something good here.' So I searched the shell with my fingers and found the plumpest little figpecker, all covered with yolk and seasoned with pepper."
Trimalchio's Pastry Eggs
4 Large eggs, hard boiled and cooled
8 small (1 inch) shrimp, shelled and deveined
2 tsp. liquamen*
1 1/2 cups flour
3 ounces olive oil
1 egg
1 tablespoon cold water.
Cover the shrimp with water and boil about 10 minutes, until thoroughly cooked. Drain. Shell the hardboiled eggs. Cut off the top of each egg where the yolk begins. Carefully scoop out the yolk, leaving the white intact. Reserve the white "caps". Mix the yolks with the liquamen. Place two shrimp in the hollow of each egg white and cover them with some of the egg youlk mixture. Do not overstuff. Replace the "caps".
Prepare the pastry, blend thoroughly the flour, oil and egg and mix well. Add cold water. The dough should be slightly sticky. Divide the dough into four pieces and shape each piece by pressing with your palms, they should be circles of a 6inch diameter. Wrap a circle of dough around each egg. Patch or trim the dough as necessary. Transfer to a bakinc pan, place in a preheated 400 degree oven and bake until they are crusted brown and beginning to split. Serve with any sauce used for chickent. Serves 4
Betas--Raisin stuffed beets
Concides porrum, coriandrum, cuminum, uvam passam farinum, et omnia in medullam mittes. ligabis et ita inferes ex liquamine, oleo et aceto.
Chop leeks, coriander, cumin, raisins, add flour, and add all this to the pith <of the incised beets>. Thicken, and serve with liquamen, oil and vinegar.
Raisin-stuffed Beets
4 large beets, trimmed
1 leek or green onion, trimmed and chopped
2 coriander leaves, chopped (opt)
1 tsp. cumin seed, ground
1/2 cup raisins
2 tsp. flour
1 ounce liquamen*
1 ounce olive oil
1 ounce vinegar
With a small knife or apple corer cut out the center of each beet, start your cut from the top of the beet. The amount removed from each beet should be the size of an apple core--a cylinder about 1/2 inch in diameter and about 2 inches long. Do not go through the bottom of the beet. Discard cores.
Combine the chopped leek, coriander leaves, cumin and flour. Chop the raisins fine and add them to the mixture, blend well.
Stuff each beet with 1/4 of the raisin mixture and place all in a saucepan small enough so that they can stand upright without falling over. Add water to the pan until the water reaches halfway up the beats. Sprinkle a little water into the stuffed cavities. Bring toa boil, cover, reduce heat, and simmer until tender.
When the beets are cooked, transfer them onto a serving plate. Mix together liquamen, oil, vinegar and pour over beets. Serves4 (8)
Caroetae Frictae--Fried Carrots
Caroetae frictae oenogaro inferuntur
Fried Carrots Serve with oenogarum
Oenogarum: piper, ligusticum, coriandrum, rutam, liquamen, mel, <vinum> et oleum modice.
Oenogarum: Pepper, lovage, coriander, rue, liquamen, honey, wine and a little oil
Fried Carrots
6 medium sized carrots, peeled, trimmed and chopped into very thin rounds
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup liquamen*
1/4 cup red wine
1/4 cup honey
1/4 tsp. each pepper, coriander, rue (optional)
Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and add the carrots, stir fry for approximately 4 minutes until tender crisp. Transfer the carrots with their oil to a serving dish. Mix together liquamen, wine, and honey and spices, and pour over the carrots. Serves 4 (8)
Aliter Porros--Char-broiled Leeks
Alliter Porros: opertos foliis cauliculorum [et] in prunis coques, ut supra [et] inferes
Another Method. Cover the leeks with cabbage-leaves and cook in a red hot coal. Serve as above. (served with oil, liquamen and wine)
Char-Broiled Leeks
4 leeks (white part only) trimmed
1/4 cup olive oil
1 tablespoon red wine
1 tablespoon liquamen*
Wrap each leek in it's own piece of aluminum foil, make sure no part of it is exposed. Place the wrapped leeks amidst hot charcoals for 10 minutes. Take up the packages, unwrap them, and place the leeks in a serving dish. Mix together the oil, wine, and liquamen, and pour this mixture over the leeks. Serves 4 (8)
*note--to prepare this dish authentically, cover 1 head of cabbage with water and boil for 7 minutes to soften. Drain, rinse under cold water. Wrap one cabbage leaf around one piece of leek. If the leeks are excessively long, you may have to cut them in half crosswise. If any part of the leek is exposed, wrap a second cabbage leaf around the first. Cook as you would the aluminum foil wrapped leeks by placing amidst hot coals for 10 minutes. Discard the burnt cabbage.
Apothermum sic Facies--Bulgur with Nuts and Raisins
Apothermum sic Facies: alicam elixa cum nucleis et amygdalis depallatis et in aqua infusis et lotis ex creta argentaria, ut ad candorem pariter perducantur. cui ammiscebis uvam passam, caroenum vel passum, desuper <piper> confractum asparges et in boletari inferes.
Apothermum. Make as follows. Boil spelt-grits with pine-kernels and almonds skinned, soaked, and washed with chalk used for cleaning silver, so as to render them equally white. Into this mix raisins, caroenum or passum, sprinkle ground pepper on top, and serve in a serving dish (boletar).
*to be historically authentic, this dish would have to be made from emmer wheat groats, but emmer wheat is hard to come by, so bulgar has been substituted which is readily available.
Bulger with Nuts and Raisins
Bulger with Nuts and Raisins
1 cup bulgur, washed
1 1/2 cups water
2 tbsp. pine nuts
2 tbsp. blanched almonds
1/4 cup. raisins
1 ounce sweet wine or grape juice
1/4 tsp. ground pepper
Bring the bulgur to a boil in the water along with the pine nuts and almonds. Simmer for 15 minutes until bulgur is tender, but not mushy, all the water should be absorbed. Drain if necessary. Add the raisins, sweet wine or grapejuice, and the pepper, mix well and transfer to a serving dish. Serves 4 (8)
*note--modern taste may prefer a sprinkling of salt when serving this.
Mensae Secundae--Dessert course--The secundae mensae consists of fruits and various sweets.
Dulcia Domestica--Home made Sweet
Dulcia Domestica: palmulas vel dactylos excepto semine, nuce vel nucleis vel pipere trito infercies. sale foris contingis, frigis in melle cocto, et inferes.
Home Made Sweet. Stone dates, and stuff with nuts, pine kernels or ground pepper. Roll in salt, fry in cooked honey, and serve
Stuffed Dates in Honey
20 pitted dates
1/4 cup honey
10 almonds, blanched
salt
Split the almonds in half lengthwise. Stuff each date with one almond half. Heat the honey in a small saucepan. When the honey begins to foam up, roll each date in salt, and drop into the honey. Cook briefly in the honey, but do not let the honey start to carmelize. With a slotted spoon or tongs, remove the dates from the honey and lay them on a lightly oiled dish, let cool, then serve. Yield 20 dates.
*note--as a rule Romans preferred the taste of sweets sprinkled with ground pepper. One variation of this recipe suggests stuffing the dates with pepper.
Fresh fruit in season;mala granata(Pomegranite),uvas (grapes),persica(peaches),pruna (plums),praecoquis (apricots), mala matiana(apples),pira (pears),fici (figs), cerasia(cherries) or any combination of the above.
Nuces(Nuts);nucleos pineos( pinenuts),nuces (walnuts),castaneae(chestnuts), pistachio, amygdali(almonds), pontica (hazel), calva (filberts)
*all spelling errors are uniquely my own! ;P
*Liquamen--
Liquamen (Fish Sauce)
This is one of the basics of Roman cooking, it is salty in flavour.
There are various Fish Sauces available in oriental shops.
One alternative mentioned, is to use 1 tablespoon of salt dissolved in 100ml (3½ fl oz) of wine.
To Make Liquamen-a modern equivilent for the stuff that was sold factory made in antiquity.
1 two ounce can anchovies packed in olive oil
1 1/2 cups water
1 tsp. oregano
1 ounce grape juice (defrutum--a concentrated grape juice that was boiled down 1/3 in antiquity. Todays grape juice need not be boiled down)
1/2 tsp. salt
Boil the anchovies, water, oregano, and salt over high heat for ten minutes, until the liquid is reduced 1/3. Strain the liquamen through a tea strainer once or twice then add the grape juice. Pour into a jar and it will keep for weeks if refrigerated. Yield 1 cup.
Works Cited:
Flower, Barbara and Elisabeth Rosenbaum; The Roman Cookery Book; a Critical Translation of The Art of Cooking by Apicius for Use in the Study and the Kitchen
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