[Sca-cooks] Sows Utter stuffed with Fried Baby Mice.

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 3, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Terry Decker wrote:

> Not stuffed with mice, but...
>
> Sumen Plenum:  teritur piper, careum, echinus salsus, consuitur et  
> sic coquitur.  manducatur cum allece sinapi.
>
> --Apicius 262
>
> Stuffed udder.  Pound pepper, caraway and salted sea urchine.  Sew  
> up and thus cook.  You eat it with allec mustard.
>
> Presumably you stuff the sea urchine mix in the udder before sewing  
> it up. There is probably a dropped "and" between allec and  
> mustard.  Allec is a sauce for boiled meats.

My recollection is that allec is halec, the solid-phase dregs that  
are a by-product of liquamen or garum production. It does  
occasionally turn up in sauces, though.

Adamantius




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