Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

WITH TURNIPS _PISCES SCORPIONES RAPULATAS_ VIII. ANY KIND OF FISH, FRIED _PISCES FRIXOS CUIUSCUMQUE GENERIS_ IX. FRIED FISH _ITEM PISCES FRIXOS_ X. ROAST [Grilled] FISH _PISCES ASSOS_ XI. FRIED FISH AND WINE SAUCE _PISCES INOTOGONON_ XII. SARDINES, BABY TUNNY, WHITING _SARDAS_ XIII. FISH STEWED IN WINE _ITEM PISCES INOTOGONON_ XIV. STEWED MULLET WITH DILL _MULLOS ANETATOS_ XV. MULLET, DIFFERENT STYLE _ALITER MULLOS_ XVI. MURENA AND EEL _MURENAS ET ANGUILLAS_ XVII. SPINY LOBSTER AND SQUILL _LUCUSTAS ET ISQUILLAS_ XVIII. BOILED FISH _PISCES ELIXOS_ XIX. A DISH OF SOLE AND EGGS _PATINAS OBORUM_ XX. SUCKLING PIG, CORIANDER SAUCE _PORCELLO CORIANDRATU_ XXI. SUCKLING PIG, WINE SAUCE _PORCELLO IN OCCUCTU_ XXII. PORK, PAN GRAVY _PORCELLO EO IURE_ XXIII. PORK SPRINKLED WITH THYME _PORCELLO TYMMO CRAPSU_ XXIV. PICKLED PORK _PORCELLU EXOZOME_ XXV. LASER [sauce for] PORK _PORCELLU LASARATU_ XXVI. SAUCE FOR PORK _PORCELLU IUSCELLU_ XXVII. PLAIN LAMB _AGNU SIMPLICE_ XXVIII. KID AND LASER _HEDU LASARATU_ XXIX. THRUSH, HEALTH STYLE _TURDOS APONTOMENUS_ XXX. TURTLEDOVES _TURTURES_ XXXI. SAUCE FOR PARTRIDGE _IUS IN PERDICES_ [1] _Brevis cyboru_ could be nicely and appropriately rendered with "Menu,"--something minute, short,--but this list is not a menu in our modern sense. It is an enumeration of recipe names, a summary of dishes contained in the excerpts. There is considerable variation in the spelling of the names here and in the following. Syllables ending with "u" are invariably abbreviations of "um." I [468] A CASSEROLE [1] OF VEGETABLE AND CHICKEN _CACCABINAM MINOREM_ ARRANGE DIFFERENT KINDS OF COOKED VEGETABLES IN A CASSEROLE WITH [cooked] CHICKEN INTERSPERSED, IF YOU LIKE; SEASON WITH BROTH AND OIL, SET TO BOIL. NEXT CRUSH A LITTLE PEPPER AND LEAVES, AND MIX AN EGG IN WITH THE DRESSING [add this to the vegetables] PRESS [into the casserole, eliminating the juice] [2]. [1] The dish resembles a chartreuse. [2] Juice should be extracted before the addition of the egg, if the dish is to be unmoulded. Ia [469] THE SAME, WITH ANOTHER DRESSING, A CABBAGE _CHARTREUSE_ _ALIAS: TRITURA UNDE PERFUNDES CACCABINAM_ CRUSH WHATEVER QUANTITY OF LEAVES IS REQUIRED WITH CHERVIL AND ONE AND A QUARTER PART OF LAUREL BERRIES, A MEDIUM-SIZED