Apicius' De Re Coquinaria - a Roman cookbook written c. the 4th century. Let's take a look:
- Make a paste of stewed brains [calf's, pig's, etc], season with pepper, cumin, laser, broth, thickened wine, milk and eggs. Poach it over a weak fire or in a hot water bath.
- Make a paste of stewed brains [calf's, pig's, etc], season with pepper, cumin, laser, broth, thickened wine, milk and eggs. Poach it over a weak fire or in a hot water bath.
To make salt meat sweet: you can make salt meats [i.e. meat preserved by salting] sweet by first boiling them in milk and then finishing them in water.
To keep oysters: fumigate a vinegar barrel with pitch, wash it out with vinegar and stack the oysters in it.
To keep oysters: fumigate a vinegar barrel with pitch, wash it out with vinegar and stack the oysters in it.
Spoiled honey made good: how bad honey may be turned into a saleable article is to mix one part of the spoiled honey with two parts of good honey.
To keep all vegetables green: all vegetables will remain green if boiled with cooking soda.
To keep all vegetables green: all vegetables will remain green if boiled with cooking soda.
To keep cooked sides of pork or beef or tenderloins: place them in a pickle of mustard, vinegar, salt and honey, covering meat entirely. And when ready to use you'll be surprised.
- Vegetable dinner, easily digested: green vegetables are suited for this purpose. young beets and leeks are parboiled; arrange them in a baking dish, grind pepper and cumin, add broth and condensed must, heat and finish them on a slow fire, and serve.
- Stuffed sardine: the sardine is boned and filled with crushed flea-bane, several grains of pepper, mint, nuts, diluted with honey, tied or sewed, wrapped in parchment and placed in a flat dish above the steam rising from the stove; season with oil, reduced must and origany.
- Roast suckling pig with honey: empty the pig by the neck, clean and dry, crush one ounce pepper, honey and wine, place this in a sauce pan and heat; next break dry toast and mix with the things in the sauce pan; stir with a whip of fresh laurel twigs so that the paste...
... is nice and smooth until sufficiently cooked. This dressing fill into the pig, wrap in parchment, place in the oven roast slowly, when done, glaze with honey garnish nicely and serve.
- Sole in white wine: beat the sole, prepare and place them in a shallow sauce pan, add oil, broth and wine, and poach them thus; now crush pepper, lovage, origany and add of the fish juice; then bind the sauce with raw eggs yolks to make a good creamy sauce of it...
... strain this over the sole, heat all on a slow fire to fill it with live heat sprinkle with pepper and serve.
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