Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

MOMENT OF SERVING [3]. [1] A piece of meat from the neck of a food animal, beef, veal, pork; a muscular hard piece, requiring much care to make it palatable, a "pot roast." [2] A roasting pan especially adapted for braising tough meats, with closefitting cover to hold the vapors. [3] Tor. combines this and the foregoing formula. G.-V. _siccum calidum_, for hot gravy. Perhaps a typographical error for _succum_. VI BOILED, STEWED MEATS, AND DAINTY FOOD _IN ELIXAM ET COPADIA_ [271] SAUCE FOR ALL BOILED DISHES _JUS IN ELIXAM OMNEM_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, ORIGANY, RUE, SILPHIUM, DRY ONION, WINE, REDUCED WINE, HONEY, VINEGAR, A LITTLE OIL, BOILED DOWN, STRAINED THROUGH A CLOTH AND POURED UNDER THE HOT COOKED MEATS [1]. [1] A very complicated sauce for boiled viands. Most of the ingredients are found in the Worcestershire Sauce. [272] SAUCE FOR BOILED VIANDS _JUS IN ELIXAM_ MAKE IT THUS: [Tor.] PEPPER, PARSLEY, BROTH, VINEGAR, FIG-DATES, ONIONS, LITTLE OIL, POURED UNDER VERY HOT. [273] ANOTHER _JUS IN ELIXAM_ CRUSH PEPPER, DRY RUE, FENNEL SEED, ONION, FIGDATES, WITH BROTH AND OIL. [274] WHITE [bread] [1] SAUCE FOR BOILED VIANDS _JUS CANDIDUM IN ELIXAM_ WHITE SAUCE FOR BOILED DISHES IS MADE THUS: [2] PEPPER, BROTH, WINE, RUE, ONIONS, NUTS, A LITTLE SPICE, BREAD SOAKED TO THE SATURATION POINT, OIL, WHICH IS COOKED AND SPREAD UNDER [the meat]. [1] Our present bread sauce, somewhat simpler, but essentially the same as the Apician sauce, is very popular with roast partridge, pheasant and other game in England. [2] Tor. sentence wanting in other texts. [275] ANOTHER WHITE SAUCE FOR BOILED VIANDS _ALITER JUS CANDIDUM IN ELIXAM_ ANOTHER WHITE SAUCE FOR BOILED DISHES CONTAINS: [1] PEPPER, CARRAWAY, LOVAGE, THYME, ORIGANY, SHALLOTS, DATES, HONEY, VINEGAR, BROTH AND OIL. [276] WHITE SAUCE FOR DAINTY FOOD _IN COPADIIS _[1]_ JUS ALBUM_ TAKE CUMIN, LOVAGE, RUE SEED, PLUMS FROM DAMASCUS [2] SOAK IN WINE, ADD HONEY MEAD AND VINEGAR, THYME AND ORIGANY TO TASTE [3]. [1] Lacking definite description of the _copadia_ it is hard to differentiate between them and the _offelæ_.--_Cupedia_ (Plaut. and Goll.), nice dainty dishes, from _cupiditas_, appetite,