Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

sour, tart ACETABULUM, a "vinegar" cruet: a small measure, equivalent to 15 Attic drachms; see Measures ACETUM, vinegar ---- MULSUM, mead ACICULA, ACUS, the needle fish, or horn-back, or horn-beak; a long fish with a snout sharp like a needle; the gar-fish, or sea-needle ACIDUM, sour; same as ACER ACINATICIUS, a costly raisin wine ACINOSUS, full of kernels or stones ACINUS, --UM, a grain, or grape raisin berry or kernel ACIPENSER, a large fish, sturgeon, {Rx} 145; also see STYRIO ACOR, --UM, sourness, tartness; the herb sweetcane, gardenflag, galangale ACRIMONIA, acidity, tartness, sourness; harshness of taste ACUS, same as ACICULA Adjustable Table, illustration, p. 138 ADULTERAM, "tempting" dish, {Rx} 192 Adulterations of food in antiquity, pp. 33, 39, seq. 147; {Rx} 6, 7, 9, 15, 17, 18. Also see Cookery, deceptive Advertising cooked ham, {Rx} 287 Advertising ancient hotels, p. 6 Aegineta, Paulus, writer on medicine and cookery, see Apiciana, No. 5-6 AENEUM, a "metal" cooking utensil, a CACCABUS, which see; AENEUM VAS, a mixing bowl; AENEA PATELLA, a pewter, bronze or silver service platter. Aeno Coctus, braised, sometimes confused with oenococtum, stewed in wine AËROPTES, fowl, birds; the correct title of Book VI, see p. 141 Aethiopian Cumin {Rx} 35 "AFFE" (Ger.) Monkey; {Rx} 55; also see Caramel Coloring AGITARE (OVA), to stir, to beat (eggs) AGNUS, IN AGNO, lamb; AGNINUS, pertaining to L. {Rx} 291 seq., 355, 364, 495 ---- COPADIA AGNINA, {Rx} 355 seq. ---- AGNI COCTURA, {Rx} 358 ---- ASSUS, {Rx} 359 ---- AGNUM SIMPLICEM, {Rx} 495 ---- TARPEIANUS, {Rx} 363 AGONIA, cattle sacrificed at the festivals: only little of the victims was wasted at religious ceremonies. The priests, after predicting the future from the intestines, burned them but sold the carcass to the innkeeper and cooks of the POPINA, hence the name. These eating places of a low order did a thriving business with cheaply bought meats which, however, usually were of the best quality. In Pompeii such steaks were exhibited in windows behind magnifying glasses to attract the rural customer Albino, writer, p. 10 ALBUM, ALBUMEN, white; ---- OVORUM, the "whites" of egg; ----