Ancient Roman Recipes

Vegetable Dinner - Pulmentarium ad ventrem

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All green vegetables are suited for this purpose.
Very young beets and well matured leeks are parboiled.
Arrange them in a baking dish.
Grind pepper and cumin, add broth and condensed must, or anything else to sweeten them a little,
Heat and finish them on a slow fire, and serve.

Betas minutas et porros requietos elixabis, in patina compones. Teres piper, cuminum, suffundes liquamen, passum, ut quaedam dulcedo sit. Facias ut ferveat. Cum ferbuerit, inferes.