Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

ELIXUM simply is a meat bouillon as it is made today. ELIXATIO, a court-bouillon, liquid boiled down; ELIXATURA, a reduction EMBAMMA, a marinade, a pickle or sauce to preserve food, to give it additional flavor; same as INTINCTUS, {Rx} 344 EMBRACTUM, EMPHRACTUM, a dish "covered over"; a casserole of some kind. E. BAIANUM, {Rx} 431 Endives, {Rx} 109 Enoche of Ascoli, medieval scholar, cf. Apiciana Entrées, potted, {Rx} 54, 55; ---- sauces, {Rx} 56; ---- of fish, poultry and sausage, {Rx} 139; ---- of fowl and livers, {Rx} 175 EPIMELES, careful, accurate; choice things. Title of Book I Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dialogue, p. 273 ERUCA, the herb rocket, a colewort, a salad plant, a mustard plant ERVUM, a kind of pulse like vetches or tares ESCA, meat, food, victuals; ESCO, to eat Escoffier, A. modern chef, writer, {Rx} 338 ESCULENTES, things good to eat ESTRIX, she-glutton ESUS, eating Every Day Dishes, {Rx} 128, 142 EXCERPTA A VINIDARIO, p. 235 Excerpts from Apicius by Vinidarius, pp. 21, 234 EXCOQUO, to boil out, to melt, to render (fats) F FABA, bean, pulse. ---- AEGYPTIACA, {Rx} 322; ---- IN FRIXORIO, string beans in the frying pan, Fr.: HARICOTS VERTS SAUTÉS; ---- VITELLIANA, {Rx} 189, 193 FABACIAE VIRIDES, green bean, {Rx} 202; ---- FRICTAE, {Rx} 203; ---- EX SINAPI, {Rx} 204 Fabricius, Albertus, bibliographer, pp. 258, seq., 268 "Fakers" of manuscripts, p. 13 FALSCHER HASE, {Rx} 384 FAR, corn or grain of any kind, also spelt; also a sort of coarse meal Farce, forcemeat, {Rx} 131 FARCIMEN, sausage, {Rx} 62-64 FARCIO, to fill, to stuff; also to feed by force, cram, fatten FARINA, meal, flour, {Rx} 173; --OSUS, mealy FARNEI FUNGI, {Rx} 309 FARRICA, {Rx} 173 FASEOLUS, PHASEOLUS, a bean; Ger.: Fisole, {Rx} 207 FARSILIS, FARTILIS, a rich dish, something crammed or fattened, {Rx} 131 FARTOR, sausage maker; keeper of animals to be fattened, {Rx} 166, 366 FARTURA, the fattening of animals; also the dressing used to stuff the bodies in roasting, forcemeat, {Rx} 166, 366 FATTENING FOWL, {Rx} 166, 366 FENICOPTERO, IN, {Rx} 220, 231 FENICULUM, FOENI--, fennel FENUM GRAECUM, FOEN--; the herb