[Sca-cooks] Use of fresh juices in period?

[Volker Bach]

>I don't actually have the recipe in front of me, but
>it was, IIRC, a 
>Roman
>cookbook, possibly Apicius or one of the others.  It
>had to be because 
>those
>were the parameters of the competition.  At the
>moment I don't have 
>time to
>go find it...and Apicius (the new one) is the only
>one I have, though 
>it
>could have been in that book about Roman cooking
>that had Cato and some 
>of
>the others in it.

If it was Roman, there's a good chance it was grape
must, probably in one of the cooked-down forms (sapa
or caroenum). You can substitute fresh juice
sometimes, but it's not the same thing. 


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