[Sca-cooks] Rotten meat and spices... (a few excerpts from Apicius)

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> >1. pg 48 - VI [9] To Improve a Broth
> >If broth has contracted a bad odor, place a vessel upside down and 
> >fumigate it with laurel and
> >cypress and before ventiliating it, pour the broth in this vessel...
> > 
> >
> What Vehling has translated as "broth" is actually liquamen, according 
> to Flower and Rosenbaum.

One wonders what the bad odor in liquamen could possibly be? Perhaps it 
started to smell good?

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