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Another Sausage*

Categories: Meat   sausage   Roman  
Original Source:Apicius, De Re Coquinaria
Secondary Source:Vehling translation, as corrected by Rufinia
Cook:Ailis inghean Muirgen
Meeting Date:2009-03-15

Work cooked wheat berries and finely chopped fresh meat together, pound with pepper, garum and pignolia. Fill the casings, parboil and fry with salt, serve with mustard, or you may cut the sausage in slices and serve on a round dish.

Ingredients

lamb, deboned, with its fat
cooked wheat berries, same volume as lamb
pine nuts (?)
fresh ground black pepper
fish sauce

Steps

  1. Trim lamb for grinder, add wheat berries, pepper, pine nuts and enough fish sauce to coat the ingredients.
  2. Grind through fine plate of grinder. Mix for evenness.
  3. Stuff into casings, poach, then fry.
  4. Serving with salt and mustard.

Note

Wheat berries used for alica.

Mustard goes well.

Pine nuts might be not correct and they could have been used more heavily.