Crane, Duck or Chicken (with Damson Sauce)
Origin: Rome, Italy
Source: Apicius, 400
Ingredients
- crane, duck or chicken
- pepper
- dried onion
- lovage
- cumin
- celery seed
- Damascus plums (damsons)
- mulsum (honeyed wine)
- vinegar
- liquamen (Roman fermented fish sauce)
- defrutum (reduced grape must)
- olive oil
Instructions
- Cook the bird in pepper, dried onion, lovage, cumin, celery seed, stoned damsons, mulsum, vinegar, liquamen, defrutum and oil.
- Keep the head out of the cooking liquid throughout.
- When cooked, wrap in a hot cloth and pull off the head so the tough sinews come away, leaving edible flesh and bone.