Dormouse Casserole (after Apicius)

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acorns

walnuts

chestnuts

pork

dormice meat

pepper

pine kernels

asafoetida

garum

After fattening dormice on a diet of acorns, walnuts and chestnuts, mince together pork and dormice meat. Add pepper, pine kernels, asafoetida. Moisten with garum and cook as a casserole in an oven.

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