Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

IT UP [5]. [1] Ex Tor.; G.-V. _P. piscium loco salsi_. [2] Tor.; sentence wanting in other texts. [3] Tor. _duratos_--_hard_--no sense here, probably a misprint of the d. List. _curatos_--carefully treated, "cured," processed. [4] _Salsum coctum_, cf. notes to {Rx} No. 148; Goll., Dann.--sprinkle [the fish] with salt.... Like Lister's error in the preceding formula it would be a great blunder to add salt to a cured fish already saturated with salt to the utmost. Cf. also note 2 to {Rx} Nos. 41, 148. [5] Virtually a repetition of {Rx} No. 149, except for the addition of the pork. [151] ANOTHER FISH DISH, WITH ONIONS _ALIA PISCIUM PATINA_ ANOTHER FISH DISH MAKE AS FOLLOWS [1] CLEAN ANY KIND OF FISH AND PLACE IT PROPERLY IN A SAUCEPAN WITH SHREDDED DRY ASCALONIAN ONIONS [shallots] OR WITH ANY OTHER KIND OF ONIONS, THE FISH ON TOP. ADD STOCK AND OIL AND COOK. WHEN DONE, PUT BROILED BACON IN THE CENTER, GIVE IT A DASH OF VINEGAR, SPRINKLE WITH [finely chopped] SAVORY AND GARNISH WITH [the] ONIONS. [1] Tor., sentence wanting in other texts. [152] A LUCRETIAN DISH _PATINA LUCRETIANA_ [1] CLEAN YOUNG ONIONS, REJECTING THE GREEN TOPS, AND PLACE [2] THEM IN A SAUCEPAN WITH A LITTLE BROTH, SOME OIL AND WATER, AND, TO BE COOKED [with the onions] PLACE SALT PORK [3] IN THE MIDST [of the scallions]. WHEN NEARLY DONE, ADD A SPOON OF HONEY [4] A LITTLE VINEGAR AND REDUCED MUST, TASTE IT, IF INSIPID ADD MORE BRINE [broth] IF TOO SALTY, ADD MORE HONEY, AND SPRINKLE WITH SAVORY [5]. [1] Dann. Named for Lucretius Epicuræus, a contemporary of Cicero. List. _ab authore cui in usu fuit sic appellata_. [2] G.-V. _concides_. Not necessary. [3] _salsum crudum_--salt pork, i.e. not smoked or cured bacon. Dann. raw salt; Goll. salt. Impossible, of course! Cf. notes to {Rx} Nos. 41, 147, 149. [4] To glaze the pork, no doubt; reminding us of our own use of sugar to glaze ham or bacon, and of the molasses added to pork (and beans). [5] G.-V. _coronam bubulam_. In experimenting with this formula