Digestive Sour Fish-Sauce (Oxygarum Digestibile)
Origin: Rome, Italy
Source: Apicius, 400
Ingredients
- 1/2 ounce pepper
- 3 scruples Gallic seseli (silis Gallicum)
- 6 scruples cardamom
- 6 scruples cumin
- 1 scruple bay leaf (folium)
- 6 scruples dried mint
- honey
- liquamen and vinegar
- pepper, parsley, caraway, lovage
Instructions
- Pound and sift pepper, Gallic seseli, cardamom, cumin, bay leaf, and dried mint in the given amounts.
- Bind the powder with honey and store.
- When needed, add liquamen and vinegar. (Alternative: pepper with equal parts parsley, caraway, and lovage, likewise bound with honey.)