Theodora Elucubrare

Tonight I made rabbit with an ancient Roman recipe from the works of Apicius. While the recipe seems to call for a lot of things with conflicting tastes, they all work out in the end (and in fact, some of them seem to disappear).

There was also honeyed wine; I like it very much, but my parents are not so enthusiastic. It involves a pound of honey and three and a half quarts of wine, and the quantity of wine overwhelms the honey, so it's not too sweet. It also has lots of spices in it - saffron, bay leaf, cinnamon, cumin, and two dates. I think that they would have been more tastable if we had been able to find fresh dates and not dried ones.

In any case, although it was a lot of work - lots of chopping and standing over things and stirring them.




also the rabbit had a tiny cute heart that tasted great.