Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

XII LIVERS AND LUNGS _JECINORA SIVE PULMONES_ [291] SHEEP LIVER _JECINORA H{OE}DINA VEL AGNINA_ [1] COOK THUS: MAKE A MIXTURE OF WATER, MEAD, EGGS AND MILK IN WHICH THOROUGHLY SOAK THE SLICED LIVER. STEW THE LIVER IN WINE SAUCE, SPRINKLE WITH PEPPER AND SERVE. [1] G.-V. _Iecinera h{oe}dina_. [292] ANOTHER WAY TO COOK LUNG _ALITER IN PULMONIBUS_ LIVER AND LUNG ARE ALSO COOKED THIS WAY: [1] SOAK WELL IN MILK, STRAIN IT OFF IF OFFENSIVE IN TASTE [2] BREAK 2 EGGS AND ADD A LITTLE SALT, MIX IN A SPOONFUL HONEY AND FILL THE LUNG WITH IT, BOIL AND SLICE [3]. [1] Tor. [2] Lungs of slaughtered animals are little used nowadays. The soaking of livers in milk is quite common; it removes the offensive taste of the gall. [3] G.-V. continue without interruption. [293] A HASH OF LIVER _ALITER_ CRUSH PEPPER, MOISTEN WITH BROTH, RAISIN WINE, PURE OIL, CHOP THE LIGHTS [1] FINE AND ADD WINE SAUCE [2]. [1] Edible intestines, livers, lung, kidney, etc., are thus named. [2] List., Tor., G.-V. have both recipes in one. Dann. is in doubt whether to separate them or not. XIII HOME-MADE SWEET DISHES AND HONEY SWEET-MEATS _DULCIA DOMESTICA _[1]_ ET MELCÆ_ [294] HOME-MADE SWEETS _DULCIA DOMESTICA_ LITTLE HOME CONFECTIONS (WHICH ARE CALLED DULCIARIA) ARE MADE THUS: [2] LITTLE PALMS OR (AS THEY ARE ORDINARILY CALLED) [3] DATES ARE STUFFED--AFTER THE SEEDS HAVE BEEN REMOVED--WITH A NUT OR WITH NUTS AND GROUND PEPPER, SPRINKLED WITH SALT ON THE OUTSIDE AND ARE CANDIED IN HONEY AND SERVED [4]. [1] _Dulcia_, sweetmeats, cakes; hence _dulciarius_, a pastry cook or confectioner. The fact that here attention is drawn to home-made sweet dishes may clear up the absence of regular baking and dessert formulæ in Apicius. The trade of the _dulciarius_ was so highly developed at that time that the professional bakers and confectioners supplied the entire home market with their wares, making it convenient and unprofitable for the domestic cook to compete with their organized business, a condition which largely exists in our modern highly civilized centers of population today. Cf. "Cooks." [2 + 3]