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      Title: ROAST PORK IN CUMIN SAUCE
 Categories: Main dish, Meats, Pork
      Yield: 4 servings
 
      4 lb Pork (roasting joint)
      1 ts Cumin

---------------------------------FOR SAUCE---------------------------------
    1/2 ts Ground pepper
      1 ts Celery seed (or lovage)
    1/2 ts Cumin
    1/4 ts Fennel
      1 ts White wine vinegar
      1 pn Caraway
    1/4 c  Pine nuts or almonds chopped
    1/4 c  Dates, chopped
      1 tb Honey
  1 1/2 c  Prok or beef stock
    1/8 ts Ground mustard
      2 ts Olive oil
           Ground pepper
 
  Sprinkle cumin over the pork and roast, uncovered, in a 325 F oven for 2
  1/2 hours.
  
  For the sauce, in a mortar, grind pepper, celery seed, cumin and fennel.
  Combine with vinegar, and add caraway, nuts, chopped dates, honey, stock
  seasoned with mustard, and olive oil. Bring this sauce to a boil, add
  raosting pan juices, and simmer for 20 minutes. Thicken with flour and
  serve with a sprinlking of pepper.
  
  Source - The Roman Cookery of Apicius
 
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