Dry Spice Sauce for All Game, Boiled or Roasted
Origin: Rome, Italy
Source: Apicius, 400
Ingredients
- scruples pepper
- rue
- lovage
- celery seed
- juniper
- thyme
- scruples each dried mint
- scruples pennyroyal
- honey
- oxygarum (garum-and-vinegar mixture)
Instructions
- Measure 8 scruples pepper; rue, lovage, celery seed, juniper, thyme, and dried mint at 6 scruples each; and 3 scruples pennyroyal.
- Grind everything to a very fine powder and mix together.
- Stir in enough honey in a small pot, and serve with oxygarum.