Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

{Rx} 9; ---- oil, to clarify for frying {Rx} 250 ---- Liburnian, {Rx} 7 OLEUM, oil, olive oil; ---- LIBURNICUM, {Rx} 7; HISPANUM, Spanish olive oil OLEATUS, moistened, mixed, dressed with oil, 103; ---- MOLLE, vegetables strained, a purée, {Rx} 103-106; also HOLUS, etc. OLIFERA, OLYRA, a kind of corn, spelt, {Rx} 99; see OLUS OLIVA, olive, {Rx} 30, 91; to keep olives green, {Rx} 30 OLLA, a cook pot, a terra-cotta bowl; see also CACCABUS. OLLULA, a small O., a casserole, or cassolette. Sp. OLLA PODRIDA, "rotten pot" OLUS, OLUSATRUM, OLUSTRUM, OLUSCULUM, OLERA, OLISERA, OLIFERA, OLISATRA, any herb, kitchen greens, pot herbs, sometimes cabbage, from OLITOR, the truck farmer, {Rx} 25, 67, 99, 103 OLUS ET CAULUS, cabbage and cale, {Rx} OLUSATRUM, see OLUS Omelette with sardines, {Rx} 146; ---- with mushrooms, {Rx} 314; ---- Soufflée, {Rx} 302 OMENTUM, caul, the abdominal membrane, used for sausage-making or to wrap croquettes (kromeskis) which then were OMENTATA, {Rx} 43, 47 Onions, {Rx} 304-8 OPERCULUM, a cover, lid, or dish with a cover Opossum, {Rx} 396 ORIGANUM MARJORANA, marjoram; ---- origany; ---- VINUM, wine flavored with O. ORYZA, rice, rice flour; see RISUM OSPREON, OSPREOS, OSPRION, legumes, Title of Book V Ostia, town, harbor of Rome; the OFFELLAE OSTIENSIS, {Rx} 261, are the ancient "Hamburgers"; this seems to confirm the assumption that the population of sea-port towns have a preference for meat balls OSTREA, oyster, {Rx} 15, 410; --RIUM, oyster bed or pit, or place for keeping oysters Ostrich, {Rx} 210-11 Oval pan, illustration, p. 159 Oval service dish, p. 43 Oven, ancient bakery in Pompeii, illustration, p. 2 OVIS SYLVATICA, OVIFERO, wild sheep, {Rx} 348-50 OVUM, egg; OVA SPHONGIA EX LACTE, {Rx} 302 OXALIS, sorrel OXALME, acid pickle, vinegar and brine Oxford Mss., Apiciana X, XI OXYCOMIUM, pickled olive OXYGALA, curdled with curds OXYGARUM, vinegar and GARUM, which see, {Rx} 36, 37 OXYPORUS, easily digested, {Rx} 34 OXYZOMUM, seasoned with acid, vinegar, lemon, etc. Oyster sauce, CUMINATUM, {Rx} 41 Oysters, how to keep, {Rx} 14, 410, 411 ---- shipped by Apicius, p. 10 P PALLACANA CEPA, shallot, young onion; cf. CEPA