Popina of Brutus Umbricius Social Thread

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Hello, friend! Sit down. What will you have, a little wine? Right away…. Now, there you go, and here are a few pickled vegetables to start with. What news from the Forum? Ah, those lying politicians; they’ll be the ruin of us all! Raising another three legions, and the taxes are going up again. Bah! Well, what will you have to eat? We have some dormice on a stick, freshly cooked. They fatten up on the nuts, you know. Same thing with pigs. There’s a bit of roast pork with a fig and thyme sauce. Now, if you want a real treat, stay for a while. Smell that? My old wife has a stuffed hare just about ready to take out of the oven. Now you can’t say better than that friend. It’s an old family recipe. How about another cup of wine while you wait?

Leporem farsum (Stuffed Hare) Mix whole pine nuts, almonds, or beechnuts and whole pepper with the forcemeat of hare thickened with eggs. Wrap in a pig's caul to be roasted in the oven. Make another forcemeat with rue, plenty of pepper, onion, satury, dates, broth, and reduced wine or spiced wine. Reduce to the proper consistency and lay under; but leave the hare in broth flavored with laser. Apicius, De Re Coquinaria, Book VIII: 384.

Image: Popina created from a model domus; image (edited) from the VRoma Project.

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* M. Fabius Furius, Aug 25, 2008 - 18:47

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Order Up (* M. Fabius Furius, Oct 4, 2008 - 17:43 )
a hike to the shrine (* Tiburinus Scriptor, Oct 4, 2008 - 13:42 )
Thanks, Tusca! (* Senex Caecilius, Sep 27, 2008 - 12:12 )
While eating that fresh roasted delicacy... (* Tusca Cassius, Sep 27, 2008 - 06:55 )
Dormouse! Fresh roasted! (* M. Fabius Furius, Sep 26, 2008 - 14:44 )


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