A Dish Good for the Stomach
Origin: Rome, Italy
Source: Apicius, 400
Ingredients
- beets
- leeks
- pepper
- cumin
- liquamen (Roman fermented fish sauce)
- passum (raisin wine)
- polypodium (fern rootstock)
Instructions
- Boil chopped beets and rested leeks; arrange in a pan.
- Grind pepper and cumin; add liquamen and passum for sweetness.
- Boil, then serve.
- Variant: soften polypodium (fern root) in warm water, scrape it, and add chopped with ground pepper and cumin into a hot pan; use.