Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

eggs, mix] AND HEAT IT [in the hot water bath]. THEREUPON WHEN [this is] THICKENED MIX IT WITH THE PIECES OF MEAT. NOW PREPARE [alternately] LAYERS OF STEW AND PANCAKES, INTERSPERSED WITH OIL [in the metal mould reserved for this purpose] UNTIL FULL, COVER WITH ONE REAL GOOD PANCAKE [4], CUT INTO IT A VENT HOLE FOR CHIMNEY ON THE SURFACE [bake in hot water bath and when done] TURN OUT UPSIDE DOWN INTO ANOTHER DISH. SPRINKLE WITH PEPPER AND SERVE. [1] List. _cottidiana_; G.-V. _cotidiana_. Everyday Dish, in contrast to the foregoing Apician dish which is more sumptuous on account of the figpeckers or thrushes. In the originals these two formulæ are rolled into one. Cf. {Rx} No. 128. [2] G.-V. _Hæc omnia concides_; Tor. _condies_; List. _condies lege concides_ which we dispute. _Condies_--season, flavor--is more correct in this place; _concides_--mince--is a repetition of what has been said already. [3] Origany wanting in G.-V. [4] List. _superficie versas in discum insuper in superficium pones_; Sch. _a superficie versas indusium super focum pones_; G.-V. _in discum_; Tor. _unum uerò laganum fistula percuties à superficie uersas in discum in superficiem præterea pones_--which we have translated literally above, as we believe Tor. to be correct in this important matter of having a chimney on top of such a pie. [143] NUT CUSTARD TURN-OVER [1] _PATINA VERSATILIS VICE DULCIS_ PIGNOLIA NUTS, CHOPPED OR BROKEN NUTS [other varieties] ARE CLEANED AND ROASTED AND CRUSHED WITH HONEY. MIX IN [beat well] PEPPER, BROTH, MILK, EGGS, A LITTLE HONEY [2] AND OIL. [Thicken slowly on fire without boiling, fill in moulds, taking care that the nuts do not sink to the bottom, bake in hot water bath, when cold unmould]. [1] Practically the only recipe in Apicius fairly resembling a modern "dessert." This is practically a repetition of {Rx} No. 129, which see. [2] Tor. _modico melle_; List. _m. mero_--pure wine and also pure honey, i.e. thick honey for sweetening. Wine would be out of place here. This is an excellent example of nut custard, if the "pepper" and the "broth" (_liquamen_), of the original, in