Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

dough trough CNECON, {Rx} 16 CNICOS, CNICUS, CNECUS, bastard saffron; also the blessed thistle CNISSA, smoke or steam arising from fat or meat while roasting COCHLEAE, snails, also sea-snails, "cockles," periwinkles, {Rx} 323-25. ---- LACTE PASTAE, milk-fed snails. COCHLEARIUM, a snail "farm," place where snails were raised and fattened for the table. Also a "spoonful," a measure of the capacity of a small shell, more properly, however, COCHLEAR, a spoon, a spoon-full, 1/4 cyathus, the capacity of a small shell, also, properly, a spoon for drawing snails out of the shells. COCHLEOLA, a small snail COCOLOBIS, basil, basilica COCTANA, COTANA, COTTANA, COTONA, a small dried fig from Syria COCTIO, the act of cooking or boiling COCTIVA CONDIMENTA, easy of digestion, not edible without cooking. COCTIVUS, soon boiled or roasted COCTOR, cook, which see; same as COQUUS COCULA, same as COQUA, a female cook COCULUM, a cooking vessel COCUS, COQUUS, cook, which see Coelius, name of a person, erroneously attached to that of Apicius; also Caelius, p. 13 COLADIUM, --EDIUM, --ESIUM, --OESIUM, variations of COLOCASIUM, which see Colander, illustration of a, p. 58 COLICULUS, CAULICULUS, a tender shoot, a small stalk or stem, {Rx} 87-92 COLO, to strain, to filter, cf. {Rx} 73 COLOCASIA, COLOCASIUM, the dasheen, or taro, or tanyah tuber, of which there are many varieties; the root of a plant known to the ancients as Egyptian Bean. Descriptions in the notes to the {Rx} 74, 154, 172, 200, 244 and 322 COLUM NIVARIUM, a strainer or colander for wine and other liquids. See illustration, p. 58 COLUMBA, female pigeon; COLUMBUS, the male; COLUMBULUS, --A, squab, {Rx} 220. Also used as an endearing term Columella, writer on agriculture; ---- on bulbs, {Rx} 307; ---- mentioning Matius, {Rx} 167 COLYMBADES (OLIVAE), olives "swimming" in the brine; from COLYMBUS, swimming pool Combination of dishes, {Rx} 46 Commentaries on Apicius, p. 272 Commodus, a Roman, {Rx} 197 Compôte of early fruit, {Rx} 177 CONCHA, shellfish muscle, cockle scallop, pearl oyster; also the pearl itself, or mother-of-pearl; also any hollow vessel resembling a mussel shell (cf. illustration, p. 125) hence CONCHA SALIS PURI,