Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

oil container--see illustrations, p. 140 CRATICULA, grill, gridiron; illustration, p. 182 Crême renversée, {Rx} 129, 143 CREMORE, DE--, {Rx} 172 CRETICUM HYSOPUM, {Rx} 29, Cretan hyssop CROCUS, --OS, --ON, --UM, saffron; hence CROCEUS, saffron-flavored, saffron sauce or saffron essence. CROCIS, a certain herb or flavor, perhaps saffron Croquettes, {Rx} 42, seq. Cucumber, CUCUMIS, {Rx} 82-84 CUCURBITA, pumpkin, gourd, {Rx} 73-80, 136 CULINA, kitchen; CULINARIUS, man employed in the kitchen; pertaining to the kitchen CULTER, a knife for carving or killing; the blade from 9 to 13 inches long CUMANA, earthen pot or dish; casserole, {Rx} 237 Cumberland sauce, {Rx} 345 CUMINUM, CYMINUM, cumin; CUMINATUM, --US, sauce or dish seasoned with cumin, {Rx} 39, 40. Aethiopian, Libyan, and Syriac cumin are named, {Rx} 178 CUNICULUS, rabbit, cony CUNILAGO, a species of origany, flea-bane, wild marjoram, basilica CUPELLUM, CUPELLA, dim., of CUPA, a small cask or tun. Ger. KUFE; a "cooper" is a man who makes them CURCUMA ZEODARIA, turmeric Custard, brain, {Rx} 27; ---- nut, {Rx} 128, 142; ---- of vegetables and brain, {Rx} 130; ---- of elderberries, {Rx} 134; ---- rose, {Rx} 135; see also {Rx} 301 Cutlets, {Rx} 261, 471-3 Cuttle-fish, {Rx} 42, 406-8 CYAMUS, Egyptian bean CYATHUS, a measure, for both things liquid and things dry, which according to Pliny 21.109, amounted to 10 drachms, and, according to Rhem. Fann. 80., was the 12th part of a SEXTARIUS, roughly one twelfth pint. Also a goblet, and a vessel for mixing wine, {Rx} 131 CYDONIIS, PATINA DE, {Rx} 163, see also Malus CYMA, young sprout, of colewort or any other herb; also cauliflower, {Rx} 87-9-92 CYPERUS, CYPIRUS, a sort of rush with roots like ginger, see MEDIUM CYRENE, a city of Africa, famous for its Laser Cyrenaicum, the best kind of laser, which see. Also Kyrene D DACTYLIS, long, "finger-like" grape or raisin; --US, long date, fruit of a date tree, {Rx} 30 DAMA, a doe, deer, also a gazelle, antilope (DORCAS). In some places the chamois of the Alps is called DAMA DAMASCENA [PRUNA], plum or prune from Damascus, {Rx} 30. Either fresh or dried Danneil, E., editor,