Another Starch Sauce
Origin: Rome, Italy
Source: Apicius, 400
Ingredients
- pepper
- liquamen (Roman fermented fish sauce)
- quince defrutum (reduced quince must)
- dried-fig defrutum
- wheat starch
- rice-juice
Instructions
- Grind day-soaked pepper, moistening repeatedly with liquamen into a thick peppered paste.
- Mix in quince defrutum (sun-reduced to honey consistency), or dried-fig defrutum ('color') as a substitute.
- Add soaked wheat starch or rice-juice and boil over a slow fire.