SALSUM SINE SALSO (Liver’s fish)

(Apic. 9,10 ,10) Ingredients:

• 250 gr. mixed livers (chicken, hare, lamb)
• ½ tsp ground pepper
• Salt
• Oil

Instructions:
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Cook the mixed livers in a little bit of water or broth. Drip and whip, adding pepper, salt and oil until You obtain the desired thickness. Press into an oily fish-shape mould. If it should be preserved for a long while, cook in oven, 110°C, for 30 minutes. Keep in the fridge. Sprinkle with virgin oil before serve.

 

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This house is attributed to M. Lucretius because his name appears as addressee on a letter depicted, with a kit for writing letters, in a wall painting in a room near the garden. He was an important figure who held the office of decurion in the city and was a priest of Mars. This patrician house had fine wall paintings, now mostly in the Archaeological Museum in Naples. In the atrium there are still some frescoes in IV style with imaginary architectures, and in the tablinum the Triumphs of Bacchus with a satyr and a Victory. There must also have been various panel paintings in the tablinum which unfortunately have been lost. The atrium lacks a central impluvium and ... continue

(Apic. 7, 3, 1) Ingredients:

• 6 grains pepper
• 6 grains lovage (or juniper berries)
• 1 tsp thyme
• Liquamen (3 tblsp soya sauce + 3 tsp anchovy paste)
• 3 tblsp dry wine (like dry Marsala)
• 3 tblsp oil

Instructions:
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Mesh pepper in grain, fresh thyme and lovage seed. Add Liquamen, wine and oil. Emulsionize. Pour the sauce on the liver and serve.

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