LVCANICAE (Lucanian Sausages)

(Apic. 2, 4) Ingredients:

• 300 g minced meat (with fat)
• 100 g pine nuts
• Pepper
• Cumin
• Rue
• Parsley
• Savory
• Bay (or juniper) berries
• 2 tbsp Liquamen (or soya sauce)
• Sausage casings

Instructions:
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Cut meat and fat into chunks and place in a bowl. Sprinkle with pepper, cumin, savory, juniper berries, and liquamen. Mix with hands so that all chunks are well-coated with spice mixture. Break stems from parsley, and break each sprig into 3-4 pieces. Add to meat mixture and toss. Put meat mixture through meat grinder, or grind with a food processor. Mix in pine nuts and stuff into sausage casings. Finished sausages may be grilled, boiled, roasted, or smoked.

 

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Opposite the house of the Vettii, in the triangular-shapes insula on Via Vesuvio, stands the house belonging to the wealthy gens Poppaea – possibly the family of Nero’s second wife. The house obtained its name from the original decoration used for the cubiculum near the shrine of the tutelary gods, where, set into the plaster, there were several glass discs whose gold leaf back bore the engraving of the cupids. The layout of the house is quite unusual as it has an atrium and tablinum but no cubicula (bed chambers) on either side, and all of this is off-set compared to the rest of the house, which elegantly extends out towards the peristyle and garden. The latter was ... continue

(Apic. 1, 35, 1) Ingredients:

• Mint
• Rue
• Coriander
• Fennel
• Lovage
• Pepper
• Honey
• Liquamen (or 3 tblsp soya sauce + 3 tsp anchovy paste)
• Vinegar

Instructions:
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Smash and homogenize all the spices. Add honey and Liquamen and mix it all. Taste and, if necessary, add some vinegar. Serve with bread.

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