Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

THE TREE, IN A MANNER ENABLING YOU TO MAKE OIL FROM THEM ANY TIME YOU DESIRE JUST PLACE THEM [in brine]. [1] HAVING BEEN KEPT THUS FOR SOME TIME THE OLIVES MAY BE USED AS IF THEY HAD JUST COME OFF THE TREE FRESH IF YOU DESIRE TO MAKE GREEN OIL OF THEM. [1] The original does not state the liquid in which the olives are to be placed. Hum. _in illud, legendum puto, in muriam_. Hum. is correct. Olives are preserved in brine to this day. Schuch's version of this formula (his No. 27) follows our No. 28, together with his own No. 28, To Keep Damascene Plums [etc.] which is wanting in List., G.-V., and all the earlier editions because it is from the codex Salmasianus and will be found among the Excerpts of Vinidarius at the end of the Apician recipes. XV [CUMINATUM. Hum., List. and G.-V.--Tac. and Tor. at the end of Book I.] XVI [31] LASER FLAVOR _LASERATUM_ [Tor.] LASER IS PREPARED IN THIS MANNER: LASER (WHICH IS ALSO CALLED LASERPITIUM BY THE ROMANS, WHILE THE GREEKS CALL IT SILPHION) FROM CYRENE [1] OR FROM PARTHIA [2] IS DISSOLVED IN LUKEWARM MODERATELY ACID BROTH; OR PEPPER, PARSLEY, DRY MINT, LASER ROOT, HONEY, VINEGAR AND BROTH [are ground, compounded and dissolved together]. [1] Cyrene, a province in Africa, reputed for its fine flavored laser. [2] Parthia, Asiatic country, still supplying _asa f{oe}tida_. The African root furnishing laser was exterminated by the demand for it. Cf. Laser in Index. [32] ANOTHER [LASER] _ALITER_ [ANOTHER LASER FLAVOR WHICH TAKES] PEPPER, CARAWAY, ANISE, PARSLEY, DRY MINT, THE LEAVES [1] OF SILPHIUM, MALOBATHRUM [2] INDIAN SPIKENARD, A LITTLE COSTMARY, HONEY, VINEGAR AND BROTH. [1] Tor. _Silphij folium_; List. _Sylphium, folium_; G.-V. _Silfi, folium_, the latter two interpretations meaning _silphium_ (laser) _and leaves_ (either nard or bay leaves) while both Tor. and Tac. (_silfii folium_) mean the leaves of _silphium_ plant. [2] _Malobathrum_, _malobatrum_, _malabathrum_--leaves of an Indian tree, wild cinnamon. XVII [33] WINE SAUCE FOR TRUFFLES _{OE}NOGARUM _[1]_ IN TUBERA_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, CORIANDER, RUE, BROTH, HONEY AND A LITTLE OIL.