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The Romans in Britain
Ingredients in Roman recipes

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AsafoetidaA bitter resin with an onion like smell.
CaroenumA very sweet wine boiled until it is a third of the original volume, then mixed with honey.
DefritumEither a thick fIg syrup, or must that's boiled until you have only a third of the amount with which you started.
LiebstoecklA plant with yellow flowers and is a kind of celery.
LiquamenA salty fish sauce. Most of the time you can replace it by salt.
PassumVery sweet wine sauce, made by boiling the must.
PennyroyalEurasian plant with hairy leaves and small mauve flowers, yielding an aromatic oil
PoleiminzeA kind of mint.
SatureiA violet or white flowered plant that grows mainly in Southern Europe, and is used as a spice plant, especially for bean dishes.
Silphiuman onion and garlic substitute that should be used rather sparingly because of its very strong taste and smell.
SpikenardAn aromatic plant with small leaves and red-purple flowers.


  

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