Chicken or Guinea-Fowl in the Style of Vardanus

This is an unusual Roman recipe in that it contains no spices apart from pepper. It is subtle in flavour, creamy and quite delicious. The sauce is very rich and even contains egg white, which inevitably causes the sauce to split, but don’t see this as a problem. The original Apician recipe uses chicken but it must be remembered that early chickens were likely to be much tastier than our modern breeds. An organic corn-fed chicken is suitable for a spicy Roman dish but a dish like this requir