The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ancient Cookery

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Alexandre Lerot d'Avigné
aka
Jeff Berry
(Number 36 in the Series, August 2005)

Ingredients

We interrupt your regular programming ...

Queries have started to come in about the ingredients of the various items - presumably so folks with allergies and such can determine if they should buy feast. Rather than make them slog through the entire article series (although it's greatly rewarding!) I'll summarize.

Bread
Not being made by me, but at least flour, water, salt, yeast. Perhaps other ingredients as well.
Moretum
Romano cheese, ricotta cheese, garlic, celery, coriander, salt.
Olives
Olives and whatever was used to cure them. Salt? Olive oil?
Glires Falses
Lamb, salt, pepper, pine-nuts, cumin. String (but don't eat that.)
Melones
Cantaloupe, honey, pepper, salt, vinegar.
Chicken
Chicken, olive oil, salt.
Cold sauce for chicken
Pepper, celery seeds, mint, raisins, honey, wine, vinegar, salt, olive oil. Maybe lovage.
Marinated Mushrooms
Pepper, wine, oil and vinegar.
Agnus crudus
Lamb, olive oil, salt, pepper, coriander.
Betas elixas
Beets, mustard, olive oil, vinegar.
Carotas
Carrots, cumin, pepper, honey, vinegar, salt. Perhaps lovage, parsely, mint.
Faseoli virides et cicer
Chickpeas, green beans, salt, cumin, olive oil, wine.
Pisces Oenoteganon
Fish, pepper, onions, olive oil, wine, salt, possibly lovage and some other green herbs.
Fruit
Grapes and other fruits.
Savillum
Flour, ricotta cheese, honey, egg, olive oil, poppy seeds.
Patina de piris
Pears, pepper, cumin, honey, olive oil, salt, wine, eggs
Soteltie
I don't know exactly, since I'm not in charge, but I think they are basing it off the Spice Cake recipe I redacted for Mudthaw.
Posca
Grape juice, water, wine vinegar.

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Originally webbed 29 August 2005
Last modified :29 August 2005