Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

54 Radishes, {Rx} 102 Ragoût of brains and bacon, {Rx} 147; ---- financière, {Rx} 166 RAIA, the sea-fish ray, or skate; also whip-ray; p. 343, {Rx} 403-4; Raie au beurre noir, {Rx} 404 Raisins, {Rx} 30 RANAE, frogs, have been an article of diet for ages. Platina gives fine directions for their preparation. He recommends only frogs living in the water. RUBETAS ET SUB TERRA VIVENTES, UT NOXIAS REJICIO! AQUATILAS HAE SUNT DE QUIBUS LOQUOR Platina skins the frogs, turns them in flour and fries them in oil; he adds fennel flower garnish and SALSA VIRIDA (green sauce, our ravigote or remoulade) on the side. No modern chef could do different or improve upon it. The fennel blossom garnish is a startling stroke of genius Rankin, E. M., writer, see COQUUS RAPA, RAPUM, rape, turnip, navew, {Rx} 26, 100-1 RAPHANUS SATIVUS, Horseradish, {Rx} 102 Ray, fish, {Rx} 403-4 RECOQUO, RECOCTUM, re-heated, warmed-up Redsnapper, {Rx} 448 Réduction, {Rx} 145, 168 Reference to other parts of the book by Apicius, {Rx} 170, 166 Relishes, {Rx} 174-5 RENES, {Rx} 286 Reynière, Grimod de la ---- writer, p. 3, see MAPPA RHOMBUS, fish, turbot RHUS, a shrub called SUMACH, seed of which is used instead of salt RISUM, rice, also ORYZA. The word RISUM is used by Platina who says: "RISUM, QUOD EGO ANTIQUO VOCABULO ORIZAM APPELLATUM PUTO." This is one of the many philologically interesting instances found in Platina and Aegineta of the evolution of a term from the antique to the medieval Latin and finally emerging into modern Italian. What better proof, if necessary, could be desired than this etymology for the authenticity of the Apicius book? Its age could be proven by a philologist if no other proof were at hand Roasts, Roasting, p. 285, {Rx} 266-70 Roman Beauty Apple, {Rx} 136 ---- excesses, p. 15 Roman Cook Stove, illustration, p. 182 ---- economic conditions, p. 15 Roman Vermouth, {Rx} 3 ROSATUM, ROSATIUM, flavored with roses; ---- VINUM, rose wine, {Rx} 4-6; ---- without roses, {Rx} 6 Rose pie, see MALUM ROSEUM, also {Rx} 136, 171 ---- custard, {Rx} 136; ----