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Ius in Pisce Rubellione (Sauce for Redfish)
Ius in Pisce Rubellione (Sauce for Redfish) is a traditional Ancient Roman recipe for a classic sauce of lovage, caraway, thyme, celery seeds and onion in a wine, vinegar, stock and oil base thickened with starch that's served with salmon. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Ancient Roman version of: Sauce for Redfish (Ius in Pisce Rubellione).
prep time
15 minutes
cook time
25 minutes
Total Time:
40 minutes
Serves:
4
Rating: 
Tags : Spice RecipesVegetable RecipesAncient Roman Recipes
Original Recipe
Ius in pisce rubellione: piper, ligusticum, careum, serpyllum, apii semen, cepam siccam, vinum, passum, acetum, liquamen, oleum. amulo obligas.
Translation
Sauce for Redfish: [Mix] pepper, lovage, caraway, wild thyme, celery seeds, dried onion, wine, passum, vinegar, liquamen and olive oil. Thicken with starch.
Modern Redaction
The 'redfish' referred to here is probably the European sockeye salmon which has a distinctly red colouration when spawning, as well as pink flesh, of course.
Ingredients:
1kg baked salmon
1/2 tsp freshly-ground black pepper
1 tsp lovage (or celery) seed
1/2 tsp dried thyme
1/2 tsp celery seeds
1 shallot, finely chopped
60ml white wine
1 tsp white wine vinegar
1 tbsp passum
1 tbsp liquamen (fish sauce)
1 tbs olive oil
250ml
fish stock
1 tbsp cornflour mixed to a slurry with 3 tbsp water (originally wheat starch, amulum, would have bee used)
Method:
Combine the black pepper, lovage (or celery) seeds, thyme and celery seeds in a mortar. Pound to grind then add the shallot and pound again. Mix in the white wine, white wine vinegar, passum, liquamen, olive oil and fish stock then turn into a suaucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer and cook gently for 20 minutes. At this point whisk in the cornflour slurry and cook for 5 minutes more.
Serve to accompany the baked salmon.
Find more recipes from Apicius' De Re Coquinaria along with information on Apicius and his cookbook, all part of this site's Ancient Roman recipes collection.
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