Ingredients
1 kg pears, peeled, cleaned, sliced
200 ml Marsala wine or sweet Sherry or Tokaj
2-4 tbsp honey
1/2 tsp cumin seeds, crushed
1/2 tsp soy sauce
1 tbsp olive oil
3-4 eggs
Method
Pears are cooked in wine, honey, cumin, soy sauce and olive oil. Broken, mixed with beaten eggs. Pour into a buttered baking dish and bake 30 minutes at 180 C. Sprinkle with pepper. * Original Apitsius: Put in a mortar cooked pears and crushed them with black pepper, cumin, honey, passum (very sweet wine boiled wort), liquamen (savory sauce) and a little olive oil. After adding eggs make them Patina (zapenkanka) and sprinkle with pepper.
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Difficulty
Easy
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Source
Mark Gavin Marcus Gavius Apicius
Comments
These Romans knew how to indulge. When I read the recipe I thought it was French, and pears are fantastic ... this will necessarily prepared baked.