Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

fire and put in a bit of Lemon-peel, the juice of a Lemon, a glass of Sack [Spanish Wine] and Sugar to your Taste. This is very Nourishing and never offends the Stomach. Some season with butter and Sugar, adding Currants which on some occasions are proper; but the first is the most grateful and innocent." Mrs. Glasse, a quarter century later, in her famous book [The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, London, 1747, 1st ed.] omits the wine, but Mrs. Mason, at about the same time, insists on having it with panada. The imaginary or real relation between the sciences of cookery and medicine is illustrated here. II DISHES OF FISH, VEGETABLES, FRUITS AND SO FORTH _PATINÆ PISCIUM, HOLERUM & POMORUM_ [128] EVERYDAY DISH _PATINA QUOTIDIANA_ [1] MAKE A PASTE OF STEWED BRAINS [calf's, pig's, etc.] SEASON WITH PEPPER, CUMIN, LASER, BROTH, THICKENED WINE, MILK AND EGGS [2] POACH IT OVER A WEAK FIRE OR IN A HOT WATER [BATH]. [1] Tac. _quottidiana_; List. _cottidiana_. [2] List. _ovis_--with eggs, which is correct. Tor. _holus_; Lan. _olus_--herbs, cabbage. Cf. {Rx} No. 142. [129] ANOTHER DISH, WHICH CAN BE TURNED OVER [A Nut Custard] _ALITER PATINA VERSATILIS_ THE DISH, CALLED TURN-OVER, IS THUS MADE [1] CRUSH VERY FINE WALNUTS AND HAZELNUTS [2] TOAST THEM AND CRUSH WITH HONEY, MIX IN PEPPER, BROTH, MILK AND EGGS AND A LITTLE OIL [3]. [1] Tor. [2] List. _torres eas_--toast them (wanting in Tor.) which is the thing to do. Cf. No. 143, practically a repetition of this. Cf. 301. [3] This laconic formula indicates a custard poached, like in the preceding, in a mould, which, when cooled off, is unmoulded in the usual way. This _patina versatilis_ is in fact the modern _crême renversée_, with nuts. It is characteristic of Apicius for incompleteness and want of precise directions, without which the experiment in the hands of an inexperienced operator would result in failure. [130] ANOTHER _ALITER PATINA_ ANOTHER DISH IS MADE OF THE [1] STRUNKS OF LETTUCE CRUSHED WITH PEPPER, BROTH, THICKENED WINE, [add] WATER AND OIL, AND COOK THIS; BIND WITH