Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome Part 62

[429] ANOTHER WAY, FOR A CHANGE!

_ALITER VICEM GERENS SALSI_ [1]

c.u.mIN, PEPPER, BROTH, WHICH CRUSH, ADDING A LITTLE RAISIN WINE, OR REDUCED WINE, AND A QUANt.i.tY OF CRUSHED NUTS. MIX EVERYTHING WELL, INCORPORATE WITH THE SALT [2] [fish]; MIX IN A LITTLE OIL AND SERVE.

[1] G.-V. _Alter vice salsi_.

[2] Tor. _& salibus imbue_; List. _& salsa redde_. There is no sense to Lister's version, nor can we accept G.-V.

who have _et salari defundes_.

[430] ANOTHER WAY _ALITER SALSUM IN _[1]_ SALSO_

TAKE AS MUCH c.u.mIN AS YOUR FIVE FINGERS WILL HOLD; CRUSH HALF OF THAT QUANt.i.tY OF PEPPER AND ONE PIECE OF PEELED GARLIC, MOISTEN WITH BROTH AND MIX IN A LITTLE OIL. THIS WILL CORRECT AND BENEFIT A SOUR STOMACH AND PROMOTE DIGESTION [2].

[1] Tor., G.-V. _sine_.

[2] The t.i.tle has reference to salt fish or salt pork; but the formula obviously is of a medicinal character and has no place here.

XII [XIV]

[431] BAIAN SEAFOOD STEW _EMBRACTUM _[1]_ BAIANUM_ [2]

MINCED [poached] OYSTERS, MUSSELS [3] [or scallops] AND SEA NETTLES PUT IN A SAUCE PAN WITH TOASTED NUTS, RUE, CELERY, PEPPER, CORIANDER, c.u.mIN, RAISIN WINE, BROTH, REDUCED WINE AND OIL.

[1] List. _emphractum_--a caudle, a stew. Seafood stews of this sort are very popular in the South of Europe, the most famous among them being the _Bouillabaisse_ of Ma.r.s.eilles.

[2] Baiae, a very popular seaside resort of the ancients located in the bay of Naples. The stew was named after the place. Horace liked the place but Seneca warned against it.

[3] Tor. _spondylos_; List. _sphondylos_--scallops.

Both terms, if used in connection with the sh.e.l.lfish are correct. Lister in several places confuses this term with _spongiolus_--mushroom. This instance is the final vindication of Torinus, whose correctness was maintained in ? Nos. 41, 47, 115, _seq._; 120, 121, 183, 309, _seq._

END OF BOOK IX [1]

_EXPLICIT APICII THALa.s.sA LIBER NONUS_ [2]

[1] It appears to us that Book IX and the following, Book X, judging from its recipes, phraseology and from other appearances is by a different author than the preceding books. (Long after having made this observation, we learn from Vollmer, Studien, that Books IX and X were missing in the Archetypus Fuldensis.)

[2]. Tac.

{Ill.u.s.tration: ROAST PLATTER

The indenture is corrugated to receive the juices of the roast.

Hildesheim Treas.}

{Ill.u.s.tration: t.i.tLE PAGE, TORINUS EDITION, BASEL, 1541

Inscribed with comments by Lappius, contemporary scholar. The fly-leaf bears the autograph of M. Tydeman, 1806, and references to the above Lappius. There are further inscriptions by ancient hands in Latin and French, referring to the Barnhold [_sic_] Apicius, to The Diaitetike, to Aulus Cornelius, Celsus, Hippocrates and Galen. Also complaints about the difficulties to decipher the Apician text.}

{Transcription:

CAELII APITII SVMMI ADVLATRICIS MEDICINae artificis DE RE CVLINARIA Libri x. recens e tenebris eruti, & a mendis uindicati, typisque summa diligentia excusi.

PRaeTEREA,

P. PLATINae CREMONENSIS VIRI VNDECVNQVE DOCTISSIMI, De tuenda ualetudine, Natura rerum, & Popinae scientia Libri x. ad imitationem C. APITII ad unguem facti.

AD HaeC,

PAVLI aeGINETae DE FACVLTATIBVS ALIMENTORVM TRACTATVS, ALBANO TORINO INTERPRETE.

_c.u.m INDICE copiosissimo._

BASILEae.

_________ M. D. XLI.}

APICIUS

Book X

{Ill.u.s.tration: SHALLOW SAUCE PAN

The plain bowl is molded, the fluted handle ends in a head of the young Hercules in a lion's skin, with the paws tied under the neck.

This corresponds somewhat to our modern chafing dish pan both in size and in utility. This pan was used in connection with the plain thermospodium for the service of hot foods in the dining room. Ntl.

Mus., Naples, 73438; Field M., 24032.}

{Ill.u.s.tration: CACCABUS

Stewpot, kettle, marmite. The cover fits over the mouth. The rings in which the bail plays are attached by rivets to a sort of collar encircling the neck of the pot. Ntl. Mus., Naples, 74775; Field M., 24173.}