On Food and Cooking

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,