Ancient fish sauce for seasoning (Garum)

Submitted by enr on 21 May 2009
Ingredients
350 g raw sardines or sardines, with heads
1.75 liters of water
400g salt
1 tbsp oregano (leaves only)
Method
In a saucepan put water and stir so salt that put raw egg floating on top. Pour a whole fish, add oregano and boil until the liquid begins to thicken. Allow to cool and strain through a cloth. The resulting clear liquid is garum. * With garum were tampered with meals rather than with salt. * The durability is infinite, is stored in special jars of garum (photo).
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Difficulty
Easy
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21 May 2009
Author
Aliana
Source
Mark Gavin Marcus Gavius ​​Apicius