Roman recipes

of the upper classes - sorted by ingredient

The Roman upper classes were noted for their variety of foods and recipes.

Here you can get a flavour of Roman cooking from these recipes.

Some are mouth-watering. Some are unusual and some are, well, really cringemaking

List of recipes by course

List of recipes alphabetically

• Garum fish sauce
• Goat's milk sauce
• Liquamen
• Nine part sauce
• Salad dressing
• Sauce for eggs
• Sauce for meat
• Sauce for roast venison
• Sauce for roast wood pigeons

• Barley water
• Mulsum
• Rose honey