[The cooked meat of] SALT SEA URCHIN IS SERVED UP WITH THE BEST [fish] BROTH, REDUCED WINE AND PEPPER TO TASTE. Undoubtedly a commercial article like crabmeat today. The sea urchins were cooked at the fisheries, picked, shells, refuse discarded, the meat salted and marketed. The fish was also salted in the shell as seen in the following: [417] ANOTHER WAY _ALITER_ TAKE SALT SEA URCHINS, ADD THE BEST BROTH AND TREAT THEM IN A MANNER AS TO LOOK LIKE FRESH THAT HAVE JUST COME OUT OF THE WATER. IX MUSSELS _IN MITULIS_ [1] [418] MUSSELS _IN MITULIS_ BEST [2] BROTH, FINELY CUT LEEKS, CUMIN, RAISIN WINE, MUST [3] AND ADD WATER TO MAKE A MIXTURE IN WHICH TO COOK THE MUSSELS. [1] Variously spelled _mytilus_, _mitylus_, _mutulus_, an edible mussel. Tor. and List. _merula_, merling, whiting, Fr. _merlan_. _Merula_ also is a blackbird, which is out of place here. The Vat. Ms. reads _in metulis_. [2] Tor. [3] Tor. _vinum mustum_; List. _v. mixtum_. X SARDINES, BABY TUNNY, MULLET _IN SARDA _[1]_ CORDULA _[2]_ MUGILE_ [3] [419] STUFFED SARDINE _SARDAM FARSILEM_ PROPERLY, OUGHT TO BE TREATED IN THIS MANNER: THE SARDINE IS BONED AND FILLED WITH CRUSHED FLEA-BANE, SEVERAL GRAINS OF PEPPER, MINT, NUTS, DILUTED WITH HONEY, TIED OR SEWED, WRAPPED IN PARCHMENT AND PLACED IN A FLAT DISH ABOVE THE STEAM RISING FROM THE STOVE; SEASON WITH OIL, REDUCED MUST AND ORIGANY [4]. [1] The freshly caught sardine. [2] _Cordyla_, _cordilla_, the young or the fry of tunny. [3] _Mugil_, sea-mullet. [4] Tor. origany; List. _alece_, with brine. [420] ANOTHER PREPARATION OF SARDINES _SARDA ITA FIT_ COOK AND BONE THE SARDINES; FILL WITH CRUSHED PEPPER, LOVAGE, THYME, ORIGANY, RUE, MOISTENED WITH DATE WINE, HONEY; PLACE ON A DISH, GARNISH WITH CUT HARD EGGS. POUR OVER A LITTLE WINE, VINEGAR, REDUCED MUST, AND VIRGIN OIL. [421] SAUCE FOR SARDINES _IUS IN SARDA_ PEPPER, ORIGANY, MINT, ONIONS, A LITTLE VINEGAR, AND OIL. Resembling our _vinaigrette_. [422] ANOTHER SAUCE FOR SARDINES [1] _IUS ALIUD IN SARDA_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, DRY MINT [2] COOKED, ONION [chopped], HONEY, VINEGAR, DILUTE WITH OIL, SPRINKLE WITH CHOPPED HARD EGGS. [1] Another _Vinaigrette_. [2] Tac. and Tor. _mentam aridam coctam_, dry mint cooked, which is reasonable, to soften it. Hum., G.-V. dry mint, cooked onion; there is no necessity to cook the onion. As a matter of fact, it should be chopped raw in this dressing. The onion is wanting in Tac. and Tor. [423] SAUCE FOR BROILED BABY TUNNY _IUS IN CORDULA ASSA_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, CELERY SEED, MINT, RUE, FIGDATE [or its wine] HONEY, VINEGAR, WINE. ALSO SUITABLE FOR SARDINES. [424] SAUCE FOR SALT SEA-MULLET _IUS IN MUGILE SALSO_ PEPPER, LOVAGE, CUMIN, ONION, MINT, RUE, SAGE [1], DATE WINE, HONEY, VINEGAR, MUSTARD AND OIL.