Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

TESTA, --U, --UM, an earthen pot with a lid, a casserole TESTICULA CAPONUM, {Rx} 166 TESTUDO, TESTA, turtle, tortoise. Platina praises the sea-turtle as good eating TETRAPES, --US, four-footed animals; title of Book VIII TETRAPHARMACUM, a course of four dishes, or a dish consisting of four meats. In modern language, a "Mixed Grill," a "Fritto Misto," a "Shore-Dinner" THALASSA, the sea; title of Book IX, treating of fish Theban ounce, {Rx} 3 THERMOPOLIUM, a tavern, specializing in hot drinks THERMOSPODIUM, a hot-plate, a hot dish carrier, a BAIN-MARIS, illustrations, pp. 72, 90 THINCA, a fish, moonfish (?) "OLIM MENAM APPELLATAM CREDIDERIM"--Platina Thudichum, Dr., writer, p. 18 THUS, TUS, frankincense, or the juice producing incense, Rosemary (?); also the herb ground-pine, CHAMAEPITYS, {Rx} 60 Thrush, p. 265, {Rx} 497 THYMBRIA, savory; see SISYMBRIUM, SATUREIA and CUNILA; also see THYMUS THYMUS, thyme. Platina describes THYMUS and THYMBRIA with such a love and beauty that we cannot help but bestow upon him the laurels worn by the more well-known poets who became justly famous for extolling the fragrance of less useful plants such as roses and violets THYNNUS, tunny-fish, {Rx} 426, 457-8 Tidbits, p. 285, {Rx} 261, seq.; ---- of lamb or kid, {Rx} 355 TISANA, see PTISANA, {Rx} 172-3, 200-1 Title pages, Venice, 1503, 262; Lyons, p. 263; Zürich, p. 265; London, p. 267 Toasting, {Rx} 129 Tooth-fish, {Rx} 157 Torinus, Albanus, editor of the Apicius and Platina editions of 1541, text, p. 14 ---- quoted, {Rx} 1, 2, 8, seq., assailed by Lister, see L. ---- facsimile of Title page 1541, p. 220 TORPEDO, --IN, --INE, {Rx} 403-4 TORTA, cake, tart; ---- ALBA, cheese cake Toulouse garnish, compared, {Rx} 378 TRACTOGALATUS, a dish prepared with milk and paste (noodles, spätzli, etc.); ---- PULLUS, a young chicken pie TRACTOMELITUS, a dish prepared with honey paste; a gingerbread or honeybread composition TRACTUM, {Rx} 181 Traianus, a Roman, {Rx} 380; also Traganus, Trajanus Traube, writer, p. 19 Trimalchio, fictitious character by Petronius, whose "Banquet" is the only surviving description of a Roman dinner, unfortunately exaggerated because it was a satire on Nero, pp. 8,