[Sca-cooks] Apician date recipe

[Philip & Susan Troy]

"Mark.S Harris" wrote:
>
> Adamantius said:
> > And then there's that Apician recipe that calls for frying dates in
> > honey. Which, when you consider its boiling point, isn't all that
> > outlandish, if a bit dangerous.
>
> Could someone please post this recipe and a redaction if there is
> one? My recently started dates-msg file is still small and this
> sounds like a good addition.

Apicius Book VII, chapter xiii, recipe i:

DULCIA DOMESTICA: palmulas vel dactylos excepto semine, nuce vel nucleis
vel pipere trito infercies. sale foris contingis,  frigis in melle
cocto, et inferes.

Flower and Rosenbaum's translation:

VII, xiii, i. HOME-MADE SWEET.  Stone dates, and stuff with nuts,
pine-kernels, or ground pepper. Roll in salt, fry in cooked honey, and serve.
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The honey may be cooked for stabilization purposes: boiling honey can
foam alarmingly; maybe they cooked it in a big pot to prevent it from
bubbling over in the frying pan later. I'm only speculating, though.

Adamantius
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