Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

VOLAILLE EN ASPIC, {Rx} 126, 480 Meal mush, Book V, {Rx} 178 Measures, liquid. The following list is confined to terms used in Apicius PARTES XV equal 1 CONGIUS CONGIUS I equal 6 SEXTARII (1 S. equals about 1-1/2 pt. English) SEXTARII II equal 1 CHOENIX SEXTARIUS I equal 2 HEMINAS HEMINA I equal 4 ACETABULA ACETABULUM I equal 12 CYATHI (15 Attic drachms) CYATHUS I equal 1/12 SEXTARIUS (a cup) COCHLEAR I equal 1/4 CYATHUS (a spoonful) COTULA, COTYLA, same as HEMINA, same as 1/2 SEXTARIUS QUARTARIUS I equal 1/4 pint Meat ball, {Rx} 261, seq. ---- with laser, {Rx} 472-3; meat, boiled, stewed, {Rx} 271; keeping of, {Rx} 10, 13; how to make pickled meat sweet, {Rx} 12; to decorate or garnish, {Rx} 394, (see marinade); meat pudding, {Rx} 42; ---- loaf, {Rx} 384, 172 Meat displayed in windows, p. 73; ancient ---- diet, p. 31; ancient ---- supply, p. 31 Meat diet, ancient, pp. 30, 31 Meat supply, ancient and modern, p. 31 Medicinal formulae in Apicius, {Rx} 4, 5, 6, 29, 34, 67, 68, 68, 70, 71, 108, 111, 307 MEDIUM, an iris or lily root which was preserved (candied) with honey, same as ginger, or fruit glacé Medlar, {Rx} 159; see MESPILA Megalone, place where Torinus found the Apicius codex, p. 266 MEL, honey; MELLITUM, sweetened with honey ---- PRAVUM, {Rx} 15; ---- PROBANDUM, {Rx} 16; ---- ET CASEUM, {Rx} 303 MELCAE, {Rx} 294, 303 MELEAGRIS, Turkey; cf. Vehling: "Turkey Origin," Hotel Bulletin and The Nation's Chefs, Chicago, February-March, 1935 MELIRHOMUM, MELIZOMUM, {Rx} 2 MELO, small melon, B. III, {Rx} 85; MELOPEPO, muskmelon Melon, {Rx} 85 MENSA, repast, see CENA MENTHA, MINTHA, mint; ---- PIPERITA, peppermint "Menu," cf. Brevis Ciborum, Excerpts of Vinidarius, p. 235 Merling, see MERULA MERULA, MERLUCIUS, cf. LUCIUS, a fish called merling, whiting, also smelt; Fr. MERLAN; also blackbird. Platina discussed MERULA, the blackbird, the eating of which he disapproves. "There is little food value in the meat of blackbirds and it increases melancholia," says he. Perhaps because the bird is "black," {Rx} 419 MERUS, MERUM, pure, unmixed, "mere," "merely"; hence