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Amulatum Aliter II (Another Thick Sauce II)

Amulatum aliter II (Another Thick Sauce II) is a traditional Ancient Roman recipe for a classic sauce made from a chicken stock base flavoured with chives, aniseed, pepper and celery seed that's thickened with rice flour and sweetened with wine before serving with or over meatballs. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Ancient Roman version of: Another Thick Sauce II (Amulatum aliter II).

prep time

20 minutes

cook time

35 minutes

Total Time:

55 minutes

Serves:

4

Rating: 4.5 star rating

Tags : Sauce RecipesSpice RecipesChicken RecipesAncient Roman Recipes


Original Recipe


Amulatum Aliter II (from Apicius' De Re Coquinaria) II, ii, 9


Amulatum aliter: ossucla de pullis exbromas. deinde mittis in caccabum porros, anethum, salem. cum cocta fuerint, addes piper, apii semen, deinde oryzam infusam teres, addes liquamen et passum vel defritum, omnia misces et cum isiciis inferes.

Translation


Another Thick Sauce: Make a stock from the bones of fowl. Pour this into a pan with chives, aniseed and salt. When cooked, add pepper and celery seed, rice flour, stock, raisin wine or defritum. Mix all the ingredients thoroughly and serve with forcemeat.

Modern Redaction

Method:

Combine the stock, chives and aniseed in a saucepan. Season to taste with salt then bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer and cook, uncovered, for 30 minutes. At this point stir in the pepper, celery seed and sweet wine.

Whisk the rice flour with about 60ml water to make a smooth slurry then whisk this into the sauce until smooth. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer and cook until thickened.

Serve the sauce poured over meat dumplings or rissoles.
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