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

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach 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?

When it started to smell like meat.

A.
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brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

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