Vegetable Appetizer
Origin: Rome, Italy
Source: Apicius, 400
Ingredients
- bulbs (grape-hyacinth/onion bulbs)
- liquamen (Roman fermented fish sauce)
- olive oil
- wine
- piglet's and hens' livers
- trotters (ungellae)
- wing-joints
- pepper
- lovage
- passum (raisin wine)
- starch (amulum)
Instructions
- Season bulbs with liquamen, oil and wine.
- When cooked, add piglet's and hens' livers, trotters and divided wing-joints, and boil all with the bulbs.
- Grind pepper and lovage; moisten with liquamen, wine and passum so it is sweet; add the dish's own juices and return to the bulbs.
- When it boils again, bind briefly with starch.