Hot Sauce for Wild Sheep
Origin: Rome, Italy
Source: Apicius, 400
Ingredients
- pepper
- lovage
- cumin
- dried mint
- thyme
- silphium
- wine
- Damascus plums
- honey
- liquamen (fermented fish sauce)
- vinegar
- passum (raisin wine)
- olive oil
Instructions
- Pound pepper, lovage, cumin, dried mint, thyme, and silphium; loosen with wine.
- Add soaked Damascus plums, honey, more wine, liquamen, vinegar, passum for color, and oil.
- Stir with a bundle of oregano and dried mint and serve hot.