from what i’ve heard, it mostly just tastes of salt. apparently the romans weren’t big on spices and hadn’t figured out rock salt. so i can imagine why it’s was popular.
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MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ye olde Worcestershire sauce.
lime@feddit.nu 2 months ago
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 months ago
Have you tried east asian fish sauce? “mostly tastes of salt” might be for some low quality variants, but the decents ones are very flavorful. I mean c’mon, it’s fermented fish and the Romans had decidedly pre-modern technology, seems like you’d have to try pretty hard to make something that is not flavorful without an industrialized food factory.
lime@feddit.nu 2 months ago
i mean the recipe for garum is literally just “leave fish to rot until it’s liquid”.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 months ago
Judging by what little I know about fish sauce (roman, thai or otherwise), the process seems more similar to east asian fish sauce. Fish isn’t even really the main aroma in Worcestershire sauce.
dregan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The hardest thing