Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

A LITTLE CONDIMENT. [1] Wanting in Lister. [255] CRACKLINGS, PORK SKIN, TENDERLOIN, TAILS AND FEET _CALLUM, LUMBELLI _[1]_ COTICULÆ, UNGELLÆ_ SERVE WITH PEPPER, BROTH AND LASER (WHICH THE GREEKS CALL "SILPHION") [2]. [1] Tor., G.-V. _libelli_. [2] Tor. sentence wanting in other texts. [256] GRILLED SOW'S WOMB _VULVAM UT TOSTAM FACIAS_ ENVELOPE IN BRAN, AFTERWARDS [1] PUT IN BRINE AND THEN COOK IT. [1] We would reverse the process: first pickle the vulva, then coat it with bran (or with bread crumbs) and fry. II [257] SOW'S BELLY _SUMEN_ SOW'S UDDER OR BELLY WITH THE PAPS ON IT IS PREPARED IN THIS MANNER [1] THE BELLY BOIL, TIE IT TOGETHER WITH REEDS, SPRINKLE WITH SALT AND PLACE IT IN THE OVEN, OR, START ROASTING ON THE GRIDIRON. CRUSH PEPPER, LOVAGE, WITH BROTH, PURE WINE, ADDING RAISIN WINE TO TASTE, THICKEN [the sauce] WITH ROUX AND POUR IT OVER THE ROAST. [1] Tor. sentence wanting in other texts. [258] STUFFED SOW'S BELLY _SUMEN PLENUM_ FULL [1] SOW'S BELLY IS STUFFED WITH [2] CRUSHED PEPPER, CARRAWAY, SALT MUSSELS; SEW THE BELLY TIGHT AND ROAST. ENJOY THIS WITH A BRINE SAUCE AND MUSTARD. [1] Full grown, also stuffed with forcemeat. [2] Tor. sentence wanting in other texts. III FIG-FED PORK _FICATUM_ [1] [1] Tor. _De Sycoto, id est, Ficato_. [259] WINE SAUCE FOR FIG-FED PORK _IN FICATO {OE}NOGARUM_ [1] FIG-FED PORK LIVER (THAT IS, LIVER CRAMMED WITH FIGS) IS PREPARED IN A WINE SAUCE WITH [2] PEPPER, THYME, LOVAGE, BROTH, A LITTLE WINE AND OIL [3]. [1] Tor. _Ficatum, iecur suillum_. [2] Tor. sentence wanting in other texts. [3] Reinsenius, _ficatum_ [_or sicatum_] _projecore_. According to the invention of Marcus Apicius, pigs were starved, and the hungry pigs were crammed with dry figs and then suddenly given all the mead they wanted to drink. The violent expansion of the figs in the stomachs, or the fermentation caused acute indigestion which killed the pigs. The livers were very much enlarged, similar to the cramming of geese for the sake of obtaining abnormally large livers. This latter method prevailed in the Strassburg District until recently