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[Terry Decker]

Right you are.  I was thinking of allecatum, which is a sauce made from 
allec.

"The so-called liquamen is made as follows:  the entrails of fish are thrown 
into a vessel and salted.  Take small fish, either atherinae, or small red 
mullet, or sprats, or anchovy, or  any other small fish, and salt all this 
together and leave to dry in the sun, shaking it frequently.  When it has 
become dry from the heat extract the garum from oit as follows; take a long 
fine meshed basket and place it in the middle of the vessel with the 
above-mentioned fish, and in this way the so-called liquamen, put through 
the basket, can be taken up.    The residue is allec."

--Geoponica, Book XX, Chapter 46

The word appears as both allec and hallec.

Bear


>
> 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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