Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

FEATHERS ARE TAKEN OFF; [the hair singed] IT IS THEN COOKED IN ITS OWN JUICE [braised] AND WHEN DONE WILL NOT BE HARD IF CARE IS TAKEN [to baste it]. SHOULD IT REMAIN HARD [if it is old] YOU MUST CONTINUE TO COOK IT UNTIL IT IS TENDER. [1] Honey wanting in Tor. [2] G.-V. _Aliter_. This is one formula. [219] [SAUCE] FOR PARTRIDGE, HEATH-COCK AND TURTLE-DOVE _IN PERDICE ET ATTAGENA ET IN TURTURE_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, MINT, RUE SEED, BROTH, PURE WINE, AND OIL, HEATED. IV WOOD PIGEONS, SQUABS, FATTENED FOWL, FLAMINGO _IN PALUMBIS COLUMBIS AVIBUS IN ALTILE ET IN FENICOPTERO_ [220] FOR ROASTS: PEPPER, LOVAGE, CORIANDER, CARRAWAY, SHALLOTS, MINT, YOLKS OF EGG, DATES, HONEY, VINEGAR, BROTH, OIL AND WINE. [221] ANOTHER [sauce] FOR BOILED [birds] _ALITER IN ELIXIS_ TO THE BOILED FOWL ADD [1] PEPPER, CARRAWAY, CELERY SEED, PARSLEY, CONDIMENTS, MORTARIA [2] DATES, HONEY, VINEGAR, WINE, OIL AND MUSTARD. [1] Tor. wanting in other texts. [2] _Mortaria_: herbs, spices, things pounded in the "mortar." Cf. {Rx} No. 38. [222] ANOTHER [sauce] _ALITER_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, PARSLEY, CELERY SEED, RUE, PINE NUTS, DATES, HONEY, VINEGAR, BROTH, MUSTARD AND A LITTLE OIL. [223] ANOTHER [sauce] _ALITER_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, LASER, WINE [1] MOISTENED WITH BROTH. ADD WINE AND BROTH TO TASTE. MASK THE WOOD PIGEON OR SQUAB WITH IT. SPRINKLE WITH PEPPER [2] AND SERVE. [1] Tac., Tor. _laserum, vinum_; G.-V. _l. vivum_. [2] Wanting in Tor. V [224] SAUCE FOR DIFFERENT BIRDS _IUS IN DIVERSIS AVIBUS_ PEPPER, DRY CUMIN, CRUSHED. LOVAGE, MINT, SEEDLESS RAISINS OR DAMASCUS PLUMS, LITTLE HONEY, MYRTLE WINE TO TASTE, VINEGAR, BROTH, AND OIL. HEAT AND WHIP IT WELL WITH CELERY AND SATURY [1]. [1] For centuries sauce whips were made of dry and green twigs, the bark of which was carefully peeled off. [225] ANOTHER SAUCE FOR FOWL _ALITER IUS IN AVIBUS_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, PARSLEY, DRY MINT, FENNEL BLOSSOMS [1] MOISTENED WITH WINE; ADD ROASTED NUTS FROM PONTUS [2] OR ALMONDS, A LITTLE HONEY, WINE, VINEGAR, AND BROTH TO TASTE. PUT OIL IN A POT, AND HEAT AND STIR THE SAUCE, ADDING GREEN CELERY SEED, CAT-MINT; CARVE THE