Chicken with Pastry-Sheets and Milk

Ingredients

• chicken
• liquamen (Roman fermented fish sauce)
• olive oil
• wine
• coriander
• onion
• milk
• salt
• honey
• water
• tracta (dried pastry sheets)
• pepper
• lovage
• oregano
• defrutum (reduced grape must)
• wheat starch (amulum)

Instructions

1. Cook the chicken in liquamen, oil and wine with coriander and an onion; lift it out.
2. In a new pot warm milk, a little salt, honey and a little water; stir in broken tracta pastry gradually so it does not burn.
3. Add the chicken, turn out onto a platter, and pour over a sauce of pepper, lovage, oregano, honey, a little defrutum and the cooking juices, boiled and thickened with wheat starch.