RecipesApicius

Cucumber Salad

Apicius 3.6.3 · 4th century AD

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.