Holiday Reading Challenge

For this holiday reading task I did food glorious food. I had to read book with a recipe in it. I read a book called Horrible Histories The Rotten Romans. The recipe in this book was how Romans made numidian chicken. Here is the recipe:
NUMIDIAN CHICKEN
Ingredients:

• Chicken pieces (One for each person)
• Cumin powder (Quarter teaspoon)
• Coriander seeds (Quarter teaspoon)
• 4 dates (Chopped into small pieces
• Chopped nuts (4 tablespoons)
• Honey (2 tablespoons)
• Wine vinegar (2 tablespoons)
• Chicken stock (1 chicken stock cube crumbled in a cup of water)
• Pepper (A pinch)
• Cooking oil (1 tablespoon)
• Bread crumbs (1 slice of dry bread) 

Method:

• Put the chicken pieces in a roasting dish.
• Brush them with cooking oil, sprinkle them with pepper and cover the dish with cooking foil.
• Roast the pieces at 350°F, 180°C or gas mark 4 for half an hour.  
• While the chicken is roasting, put the other ingredients in into a pan and simmer for twenty minutes to make the numidian sauce.
• When the chicken pieces are ready, put them on a serving dish and pour over the sauce.
• Serve the chicken with vegetables.