By Sean Coughlin This post follows on yesterday’s post on whether the Romans had pumpkins. Translation: [Cooked] gourds with fowl: [add] hard-fleshed peaches, truffles, pepper, caraway, cumin, silphium, green herbs – mint, celery, coriander, pennyroyal, mentuccia –, honey, wine, liquamen, oil and vinegar. (The Latin text is here). Stewing turkey, pumpkin and apples in the wine and stock. Photo by the author. My interpretation: Ingredients 2 tbsps. olive oil2 large turkey drumsticks (about 750 g)Salt and pepperHalf a sugar pumpkin or butternut squash, cubedOne apple, … Continue reading Apicius’ Pumpkins with Turkey
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