Period recipe from Liber de coquina<\/p>\n
To make limonia, fry chickens with fat and onions.\u00c2\u00a0 And crush some skinned almonds, moisten with meat broth, and strain.\u00c2\u00a0 Cook with the chickens and spices.\u00c2\u00a0 If you have no almonds, thicken the broth with egg yolks.\u00c2\u00a0 When the time to serve nears, add the juice of lemons, limes, or bitter oranges.<\/p>\n
4 chicken breasts and 8 thighs, boned<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a01 cup almond milk<\/p>\n
1 cup chicken broth<\/p>\n
2 onions, chopped<\/p>\n
fresh pork fat back or salted pork with a good amount of fat<\/p>\n
1 lemon<\/p>\n
Spice mixture (start with 1 teaspoon cumin, 1 teaspoon dry ginger and 1\/2 teaspoon nutmeg), add cayenne pepper to taste<\/p>\n
Salt and ground black pepper<\/p>\n
Italian style breadcrumbs<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0Melt the pork fat until it is well rendered, but not burning.\u00c2\u00a0 Brown the chicken on all sides and remove to a plate.\u00c2\u00a0 Cook the onions in the rest of the fat, adding a bit of\u00c2\u00a0 olive oil if necessary.\u00c2\u00a0 When the onions are cooked, add the chicken back, the spices, the almond milk and the broth.\u00c2\u00a0 If there is not enough liquid to cover the chicken, add more almond milk and broth, keeping the same proportions.\u00c2\u00a0 Cover and cook the chicken in the liquid until completely cooked through.\u00c2\u00a0 Once the chicken is done, remove the meat, put in a serving dish and keep warm.\u00c2\u00a0 Reduce the liquid to make a sauce, adding breadcrumbs to thicken if necessary.\u00c2\u00a0 Add the lemon juice and adjust the spice mix to taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Period recipe from Liber de coquina To make limonia, fry chickens with fat and onions.\u00c2\u00a0 And crush some skinned almonds, moisten with meat broth, and strain.\u00c2\u00a0 Cook with the chickens and spices.\u00c2\u00a0 If you have no almonds, thicken the broth with egg yolks.\u00c2\u00a0 When the time to serve nears, add the juice of lemons, limes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicken","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cooks.stierbach.atlantia.sca.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cooks.stierbach.atlantia.sca.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cooks.stierbach.atlantia.sca.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cooks.stierbach.atlantia.sca.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cooks.stierbach.atlantia.sca.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cooks.stierbach.atlantia.sca.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cooks.stierbach.atlantia.sca.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cooks.stierbach.atlantia.sca.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cooks.stierbach.atlantia.sca.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}