PULLUS VARDANUS (Chicken à la Varus)

(Apic. 6, 8, 11) Ingredients:

• 1.4 kg chicken thighs and drumsticks
• 3 tbsp Liquamen (or soya sauce)
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 250 ml fruity white wine (eg chablis)
• white peppercorns
• 150 g pine nuts
• whites of two boiled eggs, mashed with a fork
• 60 ml cooking liquid
• 60ml/120ml milk

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Cook the chicken by placing in a roasting tin, covering with the Liquamen, olive oil and white wine. Cover with a lid and bake at 180°C for 90 minutes or until the chicken is done. Drain the cooking liquor and reserve. Meanwhile, add the peppercorns, pine nuts, and egg whites to a pan. Pour the remaining cooking liquor from the chicken into this along with 60ml milk (for a thick sauce) or 120ml milk for a more liquid sauce. Gently heat the mixture, stirring all the time. When it is thick enough place the chicken pieces on a plate and cover with the sauce.

 

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(Apic. 2, 2, 9) Ingredients:

• Basically, chicken fricassee..
• 1 whole chicken, deboned or 2 boneless, skinless thighs, 2 boneless, skinless breasts chopped into pieces
• 2 bunches of leeks, usually 3-5 of them in a bunch cut into pieces and washed
• 1 small bunch of dill weed, or about 1 tsp. dried
• 3 qt. water or 1.5 qt. each chicken broth and water, keeping back 2 cups for later
• black pepper to taste
• celery seed to taste
• 2/3 cup of rice flour
• fish sauce to taste
• 3 tbs. red wine

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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.