Recently I’ve seen a documentary about the Romans and I found the dishes they presented interesting.
There I learned that a certain Apicius wrote a cookbook that you still can get today (see links below).
Searching on I found this picture here and I found that this Roman Pear Soufflee looks delicious.
So I looked how to prepare it and really found an English recipe. They said in the film that the Roman dishes were a haphazard mixture of sweet, hearty and hot from today’s perspective.
And can you believe it? They put Garum even in the pear soufflee where I first thought that it would be sweet!
Even so I want to find the ingredients and give it a try ;-)
Links:
Picture: patina de piris
Recipe: PATINA DE PIRIS (Pear Soufflè) (English)
Recipe: Patina de piris (Birnenauflauf) (German)
Cookbook of Apicius:
Apicii librorum X qui dicuntur De re coquinaria quae extant (Latin)
Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome (English)
English Wikipedia entry for ‘Apicius’
German Wikipedia entry for ‘Apicius’
Here at unikatissima: Garum