Ancient meatballs (Isicia omentata)

Submitted by enr on 22 May 2009
Ingredients
400 g minced meat (not specified what exactly)
50 g of bread crumbs, without skin
50 g pine nuts
few peppercorns, coarsely chopped
1 tbsp garum or Asian fish soy sauce
150 ml red wine
Method
Mix all ingredients except wine. Formed into small balls. Fried in wine. * Original Marcus Gavius ​​Apicius: cut meat into small pieces, put it in a mortar, add it to the middle of the bread, which you soak in red wine and garum, and fuck them all together. Shaped balls. In the middle of each put peppercorns and pine nuts. Wrap each piece in the omentum (veil) and boil them briefly in caroenum (Roman sweet sauce - must, boiled until there is 1/3 of the original volume).
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Difficulty
Easy
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22 May 2009
Author
Aliana
Source
Mark Gavin Marcus Gavius ​​Apicius