Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

spoon, to kiss, in the Southern German dialect BUCCELLATUM, a biscuit, Zwieback, soldier's bread, hard tack BULBUS, a bulbous root, a bulb, onion, {Rx} 285, 304-8 BULBI FRICTI, {Rx} 308 BULLIRE, to boil; Fr. BOUILLIR BUTYRUM, butter. Was little used in ancient households, except for cosmetics. Cows were expensive, climate and sanitary conditions interfered with its use in the Southern kitchen. The Latin butyrum is said to derive from the German Butter C CABBAGE, {Rx} 87-92, 103; p. 188 Bavarian, {Rx} 87 Ingenious way of cooking, {Rx} 88 Chartreuse, {Rx} 469 CACABUS, CACCABUS, a cook pot, marmite; see OLLA. Illustrations, pp. 183, 209, 223, 235. Hence: CACCABINA, dish cooked in a caccabus. See also SALACACCABIA, {Rx} 468. I Exc. 470 CAELIUS, see Coelius CAEPA, CEPA, onion; ---- ARIDA, fresh onion; ---- ROTUNDA, round onion; ---- SICCA, dry o.; ---- ASCALONICA, young o. "scallion;" ---- PALLACANA or PALLICANA, a shallot, a special Roman variety Calamary, cuttlefish, {Rx} 405, p. 343 CALAMENTHUM, cress, watercress CALLUM, CALLUS (---- PORCINUM) tough skin, bacon skin, cracklings. {Rx} 9, 251, 255 CAMERINUM, town in Umbria, {Rx} 3, where Vermouth was made CAMMARUS MARINUS, a kind of crab-fish, {Rx} 43 CANABINUM, CANNABINUM, hemp, hempen CANCER, crab Canning, {Rx} 23-24 CANTHARUS, illustrations, p. 231; p. 274 CAPON, {Rx} 166, 249; CAPONUM TESTICULI, {Rx} 166 CAPPAR, caper CAPPARA, purslane, portulaca CAPPARUS, CARABUS, {Rx} 397 CAPRA, she-goat, also mountain goat, chamois; Ger. GEMSE; {Rx} 346-8 Caramel coloring, {Rx} 55, 73, 119, 124, 146 CARDAMOMUM, cardamom, aromatic seed CARDAMUM, nasturtium, cress Cardoons, {Rx} 112-4 CARDUS, CARDUUS, cardoon, edible thistle, {Rx} 112-3 Carême, Antonin, The most talented French cook of the post-revolution period; his chartreuses compared, {Rx} 186, p. 35 CARENUM, CAROENUM, wine or must boiled down one third of its volume to keep it. {Rx} 35 CAREUM, CARUM, Carraway CARICA (---- FICUS) a dried fig from Caria, a reduction made of the fig wine was used for coloring sauce, similar to our caramel color, which see CARIOTA, CARYOTA, a kind of large date, figdate; also a wine, a date wine; {Rx} 35 CARO, flesh of animals, {Rx} 10; ---- SALSA, pickled