Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

roasted or braised. [334] SAUCE FOR BOILED BOAR _IUS IN APRUM ELIXUM_ REAL SAUCE FOR BOILED BOAR IS COMPOSED IN THIS MANNER [1] PEPPER, LOVAGE, CUMIN, SILPHIUM, ORIGANY, NUTS, FIGDATES, MUSTARD, VINEGAR, BROTH AND OIL. [1] Tor. sentence wanting in other texts. [335] COLD SAUCE FOR BOILED BOAR [1] _IUS FRIGIDUM IN APRUM ELIXUM_ PEPPER, CUMIN, LOVAGE, CRUSHED CORIANDER SEED, DILL SEED, CELERY SEED, THYME, ORIGANY, LITTLE ONION, HONEY, VINEGAR, MUSTARD, BROTH AND OIL. [1] {Rx} No. 336 precedes this formula in Tor. [336] ANOTHER COLD SAUCE FOR BOILED BOAR _ALITER IUS FRIGIDUM IN APRUM ELIXUM_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, CUMIN, DILL SEED, THYME, ORIGANY, LITTLE SILPHIUM, RATHER MORE MUSTARD SEED, ADD PURE WINE, SOME GREEN HERBS, A LITTLE ONION, CRUSHED NUTS FROM THE PONTUS, OR ALMONDS, DATES, HONEY, VINEGAR, SOME MORE PURE WINE, COLOR WITH REDUCED MUST [and add] BROTH AND OIL [1]. [1] Strongly resembling our _vinaigrette_. [337] ANOTHER [sauce] FOR BOAR _ALITER [ius] IN APRO_ CRUSH PEPPER, LOVAGE, ORIGANY, CELERY SEED, LASER ROOT, CUMIN, FENNEL SEED, RUE, BROTH, WINE, RAISIN WINE; HEAT, WHEN DONE TIE WITH ROUX; COVER THE MEAT WITH THIS SAUCE SO AS TO PENETRATE THE MEAT AND SERVE. [338] SHOULDER OF BOAR IS STUFFED IN THIS MANNER _PERNA APRUNA ITA IMPLETUR_ [1] LOOSEN THE MEAT FROM THE BONES BY MEANS OF A WOODEN STICK IN ORDER TO FILL THE CAVITY LEFT BY THE BONES WITH DRESSING WHICH IS INTRODUCED THROUGH A FUNNEL. [The dressing season with] CRUSHED PEPPER, LAUREL BERRIES AND RUE; IF YOU LIKE, ADD LASER, THE BEST KIND OF BROTH, REDUCED MUST AND SPRINKLE WITH FRESH OIL. WHEN THE FILLING IS DONE, TIE THE PARTS THUS STUFFED IN LINEN, PLACE THEM IN THE STOCK POT IN WHICH THEY ARE TO BE COOKED AND BOIL THEM IN SEA WATER, WITH A SPRIG OF LAUREL AND DILL [2]. [1] G.-V. _Terentina_, referring to a place in the Campus Martius, where the _ludi seculares_ were celebrated. Tor. _recentia_, fresh. [2] The dressing consisted principally of pork or veal pounded fine, seasoned as directed above, and tied with eggs, as is often prescribed by Apicius. To verify how