Suckling Pig, Vitellius' Style
Origin: Rome, Italy
Source: Apicius, 400
Ingredients
- suckling pig
- salt
- pepper
- lovage
- liquamen (fermented fish sauce)
- wine
- passum (raisin wine)
- oil
Instructions
- Dress the pig boar-style, salt it, and roast in the oven.
- Grind pepper and lovage, moisten with liquamen, temper with wine and passum; boil in a pan with a little oil.
- Sprinkle the sauce over the roast pig so it soaks in under the skin.