used, and cream and butter still weren’t Sauce Recipes from Ancient Rome …the bulb [of garlic] with the leaves he kept and dipped in water, then dropped into the round hollow stone On it he sprinkled some grains of salt, and as the salt dissolved added hard cheese, then heaped on the herbs he had gathered [parsley, rue, coriander], and with his left hand wedged the mortar into his shaggy groin; his right hand first mashed the pungent garlic with the pestle, then pounded everything so as to mix the juices evenly Round and round went his hand; gradually the original ingredients lost their own properties and one color emerged from several, not wholly green, since the milky fragments held out, nor shining milky white, being variegated by all the herbs… he poured in some drops of olive oil and on top added a tiny drop of pungent vinegar, and once again mixed and thoroughly remixed the mass Finally with two fingers he wiped round the whole mortar and brought together the parts into a single ball so as to produce a moretum, perfect in appearance as in name — Moretum, transl E.J Kenney White Sauce for Boiled Foods Pepper, liquamen [fish sauce], wine, rue, onion, pine nuts, spiced wine, a few pieces of bread cut up to thicken, oil For Stuffed Squid Pepper, lovage, coriander, celery-seed, egg yolk, honey, vinegar, liquamen, wine, and oil You will thicken it [by heating] Pastry-Milk Chicken Cook the chicken in liquamen, oil, and wine, to which you add a bundle of coriander and onion Then when it is done, ... yolk, honey, vinegar, liquamen, wine, and oil You will thicken it [by heating] Pastry-Milk Chicken Cook the chicken in liquamen, oil, and wine, to which you add a bundle of coriander and onion Then when it is done,...again mixed and thoroughly remixed the mass Finally with two fingers he wiped round the whole mortar and brought together the parts into a single ball so as to produce... White Sauce for Boiled Foods Pepper, liquamen [fish sauce], wine, rue, onion, pine nuts, spiced wine, a few pieces of bread cut up to thicken, oil For Stuffed Squid Pepper, lovage, coriander, celery-seed, egg