Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

our Cumberland, very popular with venison which is sweetened with currant jelly instead of the above prunes. III CHAMOIS, GAZELLE _IN CAPREA_ [346] SAUCE FOR WILD GOAT _IUS IN CAPREA_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, CARRAWAY, CUMIN, PARSLEY, RUE SEED, HONEY, MUSTARD, VINEGAR, BROTH AND OIL. [347] SAUCE FOR ROAST WILD GOAT _IUS IN CAPREA ASSA_ PEPPER, HERBS, RUE, ONION, HONEY, BROTH, RAISIN WINE, A LITTLE OIL, BIND WITH ROUX. [347a] STILL ANOTHER _ALITER_ AS ABOVE IS MADE WITH PARSLEY AND MARJORAM [1]. [1] Wanting in G.-V. [347b] ANOTHER SAUCE FOR WILD GOAT _ALITER IUS IN CAPREA_ PEPPER, SPICES, PARSLEY, A LITTLE ORIGANY, RUE, BROTH, HONEY, RAISIN WINE, AND A LITTLE OIL; BIND WITH ROUX [1]. [1] Wanting in Tor. IV WILD SHEEP _IN OVIFERO (HOC EST OVIS SILVATICA)_ [1] [348] SAUCE FOR MOUNTAIN SHEEP _IUS IN OVIFERO FERVENS_ [THAT IS, (ROAST) THE MEAT, PREPARE A SAUCE OF] [2] PEPPER, LOVAGE, CUMIN, DRY MINT [3], THYME, SILPHIUM, MOISTEN WITH WINE, ADD STEWED DAMASCUS PRUNES, HONEY, WINE, BROTH, VINEGAR, RAISIN WINE,--ENOUGH TO COLOR--AND STIR WITH A WHIP OF ORIGANY AND DRY MINT [3]. [1] G.-V., List. _in ovi fero_; Dann. "wild eggs," i.e., the eggs of game birds, and he comes to the conclusion that game birds themselves are meant to be used in this formula, as no reference to "eggs" is made. There can be no doubt but what this formula deals with the preparation of sheep; Torinus says expressly: _oviferum, hoc est, carnem ovis sylvestris_--the meat of sheep from the woods, mountain sheep. _Ferum_ is "wild," "game," but it also means "pregnant." For this double sense the formula may be interpreted as dealing with either wild sheep, or with pregnant sheep, or, more probably, with unborn baby lamb, which in antiquity as today is often killed principally for its skin. [2] Tor. [3] Mint is still associated with lamb; the above sauce appears to be merely an elaborate Roman ancestor of our modern mint sauce, served with lamb, the chief ingredients of which are mint, vinegar and sugar, served both hot and cold. [349] SAUCE FOR ALL KINDS OF GAME, BOILED OR