Cooking Method & Instructions:

Cook beans with Liquamen (a salty fish sauce which can be replaced by salt), oil, leek and spices. Serve.

Green Beans Recipe
The above Ancient Roman recipe for Green Beans is written in totally different way to today's recipe books! Food and ingredient measurements were extremely basic - quantities were not often specified in Roman food recipes. Temperature control was difficult and therefore not specified! Cooking times were vague - and left to the cook to decide!

Green Beans Recipe
The content of this Green Beans Recipe is taken from a collection of Ancient Roman Food Recipes. The cookery book, containing these old Roman recipes, is called Apicius, the overall title being 'De re coquinaria' which means "On the Subject of Cooking".