Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

as could be partaken of without table ware. The reclining position at table made it almost necessary for them to eat H.; such dishes gave the cooks an opportunity for the display of their skill, inventive ability, their decorative and artistic sense. As "predigested" food, such dishes are decided preferable to the "_grosses-pièces_," which besides energetic mastication require skillful manipulation of fork and knife; such exercise was unwelcome on the Roman couches. Modern nations, featuring "_grosses-pièces_" do this at the expense of high-class cookery. The word, H., is probably a medieval graecification of INSICIUM. Cf. ISICIA HYSSOPUS, the herb hyssop; H. CRETICUS, marjoram. Also Hysopum creticum, hyssop from the island of Creta, {Rx} 29 I IECUR, JECUR, liver; {Rx} 291-3. IECUSCULUM, small (poultry, etc.) liver Ihm, Max, writer, p. 19 Ill-smelling fish sauce, {Rx} 9; ditto birds, {Rx} 229-30 Indian peas, {Rx} 187 Ink-fish, {Rx} 405 INSICIA, chopped meat, sausage, forcemeat, dressing, stuffing for roasts, {Rx} 42; see Hysitia and Isicia; --ARIUS, sausage maker INTINCTUS, a sauce, seasoning, brine or pickle in which meat, etc., is dipped. See EMBAMMA, {Rx} 344 INTUBUS, INTYBUS, --UM, chicory, succory, endive, {Rx} 109 INULA HELENIUM, the herb elecampane or starwort ISICIA, see HYSITIA, {Rx} 41-54, 145 ---- AMULATA AB AHENO, {Rx} 54; ---- DE CAMMARIS, {Rx} 43; ---- DE CEREBELLIS, {Rx} 45; ---- DE LOLLIGINE, {Rx} 42; ---- DE SPONDYLIS, {Rx} 46; ---- DE PULLO, {Rx} 50; ---- DE SCILLIS, {Rx} 43; ---- HYDROGARATA, {Rx} 49; ---- PLENA, {Rx} 48; ---- SIMPLEX, {Rx} 52; ---- DE TURSIONE, {Rx} 145 Italian Salad, {Rx} 123 IUS, JUS, any juice or liquid, or liquor derived from food, a broth, soup, sauce. IUSCELLUM, more frequently and affectionately, IUSCULUM, the diminutive of I. ---- DE SUO SIBI, pan-gravy; such latinity as this proves the genuineness of the Apicius text, {Rx} 153; ---- IN DIVERSIS AVIBUS, {Rx} 210-228; ---- IN ELIXAM, {Rx} 271-7; ---- IN VENATIONIBUS, {Rx} 349, seq. ---- DIABOTANON, {Rx} 432; ---- IN PISCE ELIXO, {Rx} 433-6; ---- ALEXANDRINUM, {Rx} 437-9; ---- CONGRO, {Rx} 440; ---- IN CORNUTAM, {Rx} 441; ---- IN MULLOS, {Rx} 442-3; ---- PELAMYDE, {Rx}