Roast Pork In Cumin Sauce

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Grains		Main dish, Meats, Pork	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	lb	Pork, roasting joint
1	t	Cumin
1/2	t	Ground pepper
1	t	Celery seed, or lovage
1/2	t	Cumin
1/4	t	Fennel
1	t	White wine vinegar
1	pn	Caraway
1/4	c	Pine nuts or almonds chopped
1/4	c	Dates, chopped
1	T	Honey
1 1/2	c	Prok or beef stock
1/8	t	Ground mustard
2	t	Olive oil
		Ground pepper
1		hours.

INSTRUCTIONS

Sprinkle cumin over the pork and roast, uncovered, in a 325 F oven  for
2  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  From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at
www.synapse.com/~gemini

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 72 Calories From Fat: 22 Total Fat: 2.5g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 4mg Potassium: 100.5mg Carbohydrates: 13.5g Fiber: 1.2g Sugar: 11.4g Protein: <1g

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