PULLUS TRACTOGALATUS (Chicken in milk sauce)

(Apic. 6, 8, 13) Ingredients:

• 1 whole chicken
• 2 + 1 tbsp liquamen
• 2 tbsp oil
• 1 cup white wine
• 5 bunch coriander
• 1 onion
• 3 + ½ tbsp honey
• 1 cups milk
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1 tsp lovage (or celery)
• 1 tsp oregano
• Flour
• Salt to taste

Instructions:
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Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper and cook in oven, 200° for 70 minutes, adding liquamen, oil, wine, coriander and onion; stir until smooth; drain the cooking liquor and reserve. Heat milk, honey and salt; melt water and flour to make roux and add to milk; mesh repeatedly and cook for 15 minutes on low heat. In another pan, heat the cooking liquor, a little bit of honey, pepper and all the erbs, a little bit of wine; if necessary, thicken the sauce with flour. Put the chicken, cutted in pieces, in the milk sauce and pour all over the cooking liquor. Serve.

 

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(Apic. 8, 5, 1) Ingredients:

• 800 g – 1 kg veal
• 300 g dried raisins (sultanas)
• 1 tblsp honey
• 2 tblsp vinegar
• 200 ml wine
• 100 ml oil
• 100 ml Defritum (or wine syrup)
• 100 ml Liquamen (or 1tsp salt)
• Pepper
• Celery seeds
• Privet
• Cumin
• Oregano
• Dried onion to taste

Instructions:
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Fry veal in olive oil until well done. Mix raisins, wine, vinegar, honey, oil, Liquamen and spices together in an extra pan, shortly boil the sauce. Pou ... continue

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