LEPOREM FARSUM (Stuffed Roast Hare)

(Apic. 8, 8, 3) Ingredients:

• 1 whole hare or rabbit
• 225 g whole pine kernels
• 100 g shelled almonds
• 100 g chopped mixed nuts
• 25 g peppercorns
• 2 eggs, beaten
• Rue (or celery leaves)
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 100 g stoned dates, chopped
• 1 tbsp Liquamen (or soya sauce)
• 2 tbsp spiced wine (basically mulled wine)

Instructions:
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Mix together the pine kernels, almonds, chopped nuts, peppercorns and the chopped giblets of the hare or rabbit. Bind this mixture with the eggs and use it to stuff the body cavity of the hare. Wrap the hare in a parcel of baking foil and cook in a hot oven at 190°C for about an hour and a half. Make a sauce by placing the onion, dates, Liquamen, spiced wine and the cooking juices from the hare in a saucepan. Bring this to the boil and allow simmer for at least 20 minutes until thickened. Pour over the hare and serve.

 

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This large building (approx. 2,700 sq.m.) was created by joining two residential complexes which covered an area nearly equal to that of the whole insula.
The house can be entered both from Via dell’Abbondanza and from Via Stabiana. It is arranged around two atria and three peristyle, and its name derives from a bronze statue of Apollo playing the lyre (today in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples).
Magnificent paintings and bronze portraits of famous personalities also found in it and are now on shown in the same museum.
As is inferred from electoral propaganda and a number of graffiti, it belonged to the Popidius family.

(Apic. 4, 2, 25) Ingredients:

• 500 g scallion
• Liquamen (o 1 tblsp soya sauce + 1 tblsp anchovy paste)
• 3 tblsp oil
• 1/2 glass water
• 2-5 fillets smoked herrings
• 2 tblsp honey
• 2 tblsp red wine (like dry Marsala)
• Savory

Instructions:
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Clean the scallion. Put in a pan Liquamen, oil and water; mesh and warm. Cut in a half and dispose it in a pyrex-dish. After boiling, add smoked herrings, cut in fillets, between the scallion. Do not mesh, but only shake and tilt the pan. Melt honey in wine and pour on s ... continue

Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.