Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

harden by boiling, to blanch, {Rx} 119 Preserves, several in Book I Preserving (keeping of) meats, {Rx} 10-12; ---- fried fish, {Rx} 13; ---- fruit, figs, prunes, pears, etc., {Rx} 19-24, 28, 29, 30; ---- grapes, {Rx} 19; ---- honey cakes, {Rx} 16; ---- mulberries, {Rx} 24; ---- oysters, {Rx} 14; ---- pomegranates, {Rx} 20; ---- pot herbs, {Rx} 25; ---- quinces, {Rx} 21; ---- sorrel, sour dock, {Rx} 26; ---- citron, {Rx} 23; ---- truffles, {Rx} 27; ---- vegetable purée, {Rx} 106 Press, wine illustration, p. 92 Processing, {Rx} 19-24 PRUNA, live, burning coal PRUNUM, plum; ---- DAMASCENUM, p. from Damascus, {Rx} 22; this variety came dried, resembling our large prunes. ---- SILVESTRIS, sloe berry, which by culture and pruning has become the ancestor of plums, etc. PTISANA, (better) TISANA, barley broth, rice broth, a gruel, {Rx} 173-3, 200-1; ---- TARICHA, {Rx} 173 Pudding, {Rx} 60 PULLUS, PULLULUS, young animal of any kind but principally a pullet, chicken, {Rx} 51, 2-7, 213, 235-6, seq.; ---- RAPTUS, note 1, {Rx} 140 PULLUM PARTHICUM, {Rx} 237; OXYZOMUM, {Rx} 238; ---- NUMIDICUM, {Rx} 239; ---- LASERATUM, {Rx} 240; ---- ELIXUM, {Rx} 242; ---- CUM CUCURBITIS, {Rx} 243; ---- CUM COLOCASIIS, {Rx} 244; ---- VARDANUM, {Rx} 245; ---- FRONTONIANUM, {Rx} 246; ---- TRACTOGALATUM, {Rx} 247; ---- FARSILIS, {Rx} 248; LEUCOZOMUM, {Rx} 250 PULMENTARIUM, any food eaten with vegetables, pulse or bread, or a dish composed of these ingredients, {Rx} 67-71 PULMO, lung, {Rx} 29 PULPA, --MENTUM, {Rx} 42, 134; also PULMENTUM PULS, --E, PULTICULUM, Books IV, V, a porridge, polenta, {Rx} 178, seq.; PULTES JULIANAE, {Rx} 178; ---- OENOCOCTI, {Rx} 179; ---- TRACTOGALATAE, {Rx} 181 PULTARIUS, a bowl, a "cereal" dish, {Rx} 104 Pumpkin, B. III, {Rx} 73-80; ---- pie, {Rx} 137; ---- fritters, {Rx} 176; ---- like dasheens, {Rx} 74; ---- Alexandrine Style, {Rx} 75; ---- boiled, {Rx} 76; ---- fried, {Rx} 77; ---- 78; ---- mashed, {Rx} 79; ---- and chicken, {Rx} 80 Purée of lettuce, {Rx} 130 PYRETHRUM, --ON, Spanish camomile, pellitory Q QUARTARIUS, a measure (which see), 1/4 pint Quenelles, {Rx} 131 Quinces, {Rx} 21, 162 R Rabbit, {Rx}