SC - Apicius Venison Sauce Recipes

[Alderton, Philippa]

I just typed this in for a friend, and I thought some of you who don't have
Apicius yet might like a copy.

Flowers and Rosenbaum , Book VIII, section II

1. Ius in Cervum- Sauce for Venison

Crush pepper, lovage, caraway, origan, celery-seed, asafoetida root,
fennel-seed; pound well, pour on liquamen, wine, passum, a little oil. When
it comes to the boil thicken with cornflour. Moisten the cooked stag inside
and out, and serve.

2. In Platoneum- For Fallow Deer

and for every kind of venison you can use the same sauce.

3. Aliter- Venison, Another Method

Boil the stag, and roast lightly. Pound pepper, lovage, caraway,
celery-seed; add honey, vinegar, liquamen, and oil. When hot thicken with
cornflour and pour over the meat.

4. Ius in Cervo- Sauce for Venison.

Pepper, lovage, Welsh onion, origan, pine-kernals, Jerico dates, honey,
liquamen, mustard, vinegar, oil.

5. Cervinae Conditura- Sauce for Venison

Pepper, cumin, herbs, parsley, onion, rue, honey, liquamen, mint, passum,
caroenum, and a little oil. Thicken with cornflour when boiling.

6. Iura Ferventia in Cervo- Hot Sauce for Venison

Pepper, lovage, parsley, cumin, toasted pine kernals or almonds. Add honey,
vinegar, wine, a little oil, liquamen, and stir.

7. Embamma in Cervinum Assam- Sauce for Roast Venison

Pepper, spikenard, bay-leaf, celery seed, dried onion, fresh rue, honey,
vinegar, Liquamen: add Jerico dates, raisins, and oil.

8. Aliter in Cervum Assum Iura Ferventia- Hot Sauce for Roast Venison,
Another
    Method

Pepper, lovage, parsley, soaked <dried> damsons, wine, honey, vinegar,
liquamen, a little oil. Stir with a bunch of leek and savory.



Phlip

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Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

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