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

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise:
>  > Whatever it started to smell like, if it no longer smelled like 
>broth, liquamen, meat or whatever
>>  it was originally, then it's safe to assume that it had started to putrify.
>
>*snarf*
>Liquamen was made by putrifying fish, which is the source of the funny.

Liquamen was made by the enzymatic degradation of fish, sometimes 
combined with lactic fermentation.

If they wanted it putrefied, wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to 
simply not add the copious amounts of salt that went into it?

Adamantius
-- 




"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la 
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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