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Roast pork in cumin sauce

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients:

• 4 lb Pork (roasting joint) 1 ts Cumin ---------------------------------FOR SAUCE---------------------------------
• 1/2 ts Ground pepper 1/4 c Dates chopped
• 1 ts Celery seed (or lovage) 1 tb Honey
• 1/2 ts Cumin 1 1/2 c Prok or beef stock
• 1/4 ts Fennel 1/8 ts Ground mustard
• 1 ts White wine vinegar 2 ts Olive oil
• 1 pn Caraway Ground pepper
• 1/4 c Pine nuts or almonds chopped Sprinkle cumin over the pork and roast uncovered in a 325 F oven for 2
• 1/2 hours.

Instructions:

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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