Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

PORCELLUM PIPER, pepper; ---- NIGRUM, black p.; ---- VIRIDUM, green p., {Rx} 134; "pepper" for other spices, {Rx} 143, 177, 295, seq. --ATUS, prepared with p. PIPERITIS, pepperwort, Indian pepper, capsicum PIPIO, a young bird, a squab; from the chirping or "peeping" sounds made by them; ---- EXOSSATUS, boned squab PIRUM, pear, {Rx} 160-1 PISA, --UM, peas, pea, {Rx} 185, seq., 190-2, 195-8; ---- FARSILIS, {Rx} 186; ---- INDICAM, {Rx} 187; ---- FRIGIDA, {Rx} 188; --M VITELLIANAM, {Rx} 189, 193; ---- ADULTERAM, {Rx} 192 PISCINA, fish pond, fish tank, which was found in every large Roman household to keep a supply of fresh fish on hand PISCIS, fish; PISCES FRIXOS, {Rx} 476-7; ---- SCORPIONES RAPULATOS, {Rx} 475; ---- ASSOS, {Rx} 478; ---- OENOTEGANON, {Rx} 479, 81; ---- IN PISCIBUS ELIXIS, {Rx} 486; ---- IN PISCE ELIXO, {Rx} 433, 434, 435, 436, 454; ---- AURATA, {Rx} 461; ---- ASSA, {Rx} 462; ---- OENOGARUM, {Rx} 464-5 PISTACIUM, --EUM, pistache PISTOR, baker, pastry cook, confectioner, see COQUUS Pitch, for sealing of vessels, {Rx} 25 PLACENTA, a certain cake, a cheese cake Plaster in bread, p. 39 ---- for sealing of pots, {Rx} 23 Platina, Bartolomeo, humanist, writer, pp. 8, 9, 19, Apiciana No. 6, and often quoted in this index. Author of first printed Cookery book. Cf. Martino and Platina Exponents of Renaissance Cookery, by J. D. Vehling. Cf. Cibarium, Cornum, Corvus, Frictella, Merula, Morus, Passer, Ranae, Risum, Sturnus, Styrio, Thinca, Thymus, Zanzerella Plato, writer, p. 12 Platters, Roast, p. 219; Athene, p. 158 Plautus, writer, p. 147; ---- naming cooks, {Rx} 484; Plautian Latinity, {Rx} 153 Pliny, writer, p. 31, {Rx} 307, 396, 410 Plumage of birds as a decoration, {Rx} 213 Plums, {Rx} 22 Plutarch, writer, pp. 3, 66, 128 Poggio, medieval scholar, at Fulda, p. 20 POLEI, POLEGIUM, PULEIUM, penny-royal, flea-bane, flea-wort POLENTA, peeled or pearled barley, {Rx} 178 Pollio, Roman, feeding human flesh to fish, {Rx} 484 POLYPODIUM, the herb fern or polypody POLYPUS, the fish polypus, {Rx} 410 POLYTELES, POLI--, fine dishes, trimmed, set off; "Recherché" food; Title of Book VII Pomegranates, to keep, {Rx} 20 Pompeii: Casa