Sauce for Rank Game Birds of Every Kind
Origin: Rome, Italy
Source: Apicius, 400
Ingredients
- pepper
- lovage
- thyme
- dried mint
- calva
- date
- honey
- vinegar
- wine
- liquamen (Roman fermented fish sauce)
- olive oil
- defrutum (reduced grape must)
- mustard
- flour worked with oil
Instructions
- Combine pepper, lovage, thyme, dried mint, calva, date, honey, vinegar, wine, liquamen, oil, defrutum and mustard.
- For a tastier, plumper bird, roast it in the oven wrapped in a paste of flour worked with oil to seal in the fat.