What's your word of the day?

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What the heck is it?

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It is a dish which, in the days of the romans, was a fricassée, with at least 16 sweet and sour ingredients, including the following:

    * Fish slices
    * Fish of the Elasmobranchii subclass (a shark or ray)
    * Rotted dogfish or small shark's head
    * Generally sharp-tasting dish of several ingredients grated and pounded together
    * Silphion "laserwort," apparently a kind of giant fennel
    * A kind of crab, shrimp, or crayfish
    * Honey poured down
    * Wrasse (or thrush)
    * Was topped with a kind of sea fish or Blackbird
    * Wood pigeon
    * Domestic pigeon
    * Chicken
    * Roasted head of dabchick
    * Hare, which could be a kind of bird or a kind of sea hare
    * New wine boiled down
    * Wing and/or fin