Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

three great cities of antiquity excepting Carthage during Apicius' time a rival of Rome and Athens in splendor and commerce. Most important as a Mediterranean port, where fishing and fish eating was (and still is) good. [2] G.-V. _mulsum_, mead. [438] ANOTHER ALEXANDRINE SAUCE FOR BROILED FISH _ALITER IUS ALEXANDRINUM IN PISCE ASSO_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, GREEN CORIANDER, SEEDLESS RAISINS, WINE, RAISIN WINE, BROTH, OIL, COOKED TOGETHER. [439] ANOTHER ALEXANDRINE SAUCE FOR BROILED FISH _ALITER IUS ALEXANDRINUM IN PISCE ASSO_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, GREEN CORIANDER, ONIONS, STONED DAMASCUS PRUNES, RAISIN WINE, BROTH, OIL AND VINEGAR, AND COOK. [440] SAUCE FOR BROILED CONGER _IUS IN CONGRO ASSO_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, CRUSHED CUMIN, ORIGANY, DRY ONIONS, HARD YOLKS, WINE, MEAD, VINEGAR, BROTH, REDUCED MUST, AND COOK. G.-V. _Gongo_. [441] SAUCE FOR HORNED FISH [1] _IUS IN CORNUTAM_ [1] PEPPER, LOVAGE, ORIGANY, ONIONS, SEEDLESS RAISINS, WINE, HONEY, VINEGAR, BROTH, OIL; AND COOK IT [2] [1] _Cornuta_, _cornutus_--"horned," "having horns"--an unidentified sea fish. [2] Goll. collects all succeeding formulæ for sauces into one. [442] SAUCE FOR BROILED MULLET _IUS IN MULLOS ASSOS_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, RUE, HONEY, NUTS, VINEGAR, WINE, BROTH, A LITTLE OIL; HEAT AND POUR OVER [1]. [1] List. is of the opinion that this is fresh mullet, while salt mullet was treated in the preceding formulæ. [443] ANOTHER SAUCE FOR BROILED MULLET _ALITER IUS IN MULLOS ASSOS_ RUE, MINT, CORIANDER, FENNEL,--ALL OF THEM GREEN--PEPPER, LOVAGE, HONEY, BROTH, AND A LITTLE OIL. [444] SEASONING FOR BABY TUNNY _IUS IN PELAMYDE ASSA_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, ORIGANY, GREEN CORIANDER, ONION, SEEDLESS RAISINS [1], RAISIN WINE, VINEGAR, BROTH, REDUCED MUST, OIL, AND COOK. [1] Wanting in Tor. [445] THIS SAUCE IS ALSO SUITABLE FOR BOILED [tunny]; IF DESIRED ADD HONEY. [446] SAUCE FOR PERCH _IUS IN PERCAM_ [1] PEPPER, LOVAGE, CRUSHED CUMIN, ONIONS, STONED DAMASCUS PRUNES, WINE, MEAD, VINEGAR, OIL, REDUCED MUST; COOK IT. [1] _Perca_, perch--sea perch or sea bass. [447] SEASONING FOR REDSNAPPER _CONDIMENTUM IN RUBELLIONEM_ [1] PEPPER, LOVAGE, CARRAWAY, WILD THYME, CELERY SEED, DRY ONIONS, WINE, RAISIN WINE, VINEGAR, BROTH AND OIL; BIND WITH ROUX. [1] _Rubellio_--a "reddish" fish; perhaps a species of the red-mullet or red-snapper.