Cucumber Salad
Latin
aliter cucumeres: piper puleium mel uel passum liquamen et acetum. interdum et silfi accedit.
English
Another way with cucumbers: pepper, pennyroyal, honey or passum, fish sauce, and vinegar. Sometimes silphium is added too.
Ingredients
- 1 cucumber, thinly sliced
- 60 ml passum
- 30 ml white wine vinegar
- 30 ml fish sauce
- 2 tsp dried pennyroyal
- A couple pinches of asafoetida
- Ground black pepper
Method
Arrange the cucumber slices in a shallow dish. Combine the other ingredients together and pour over the cucumber. Cover the dish with cling wrap and leave in the fridge for a couple of hours.