BRASSICA, cabbage, kale; ---- CAMPESTRA, turnip; ---- OLERACEA,
cabbage and kale; ---- MARINA, sea kale (?)
Bread, Alexandrine, ℞ 126; Picentian ----, ℞ 125. The methods
of grinding flour and baking is illustrated with our illustrations
of the Casa di Forno of Pompeii and the Slaves grinding flour, which
see, pp. 142, 149. Apicius has no directions for baking, an art that
was as highly developed in his days as was cookery
BREVIS PIMENTORUM, facsimile, p. 234
Brissonius, writer, quoting Lambecius, ℞ 376
Broiler and Stove, illustration, p. 182
Broth, see LIQUAMEN; Barley ----, ℞ 172, 200, 201
---- How to redeem a spoiled, ℞ 9
BUBULA, Beef, flesh of oxen, p. 30, ℞ 351, 352
BUBULUS CASEUS, cow's cheese
BUCCA, BUCCEA, mouth, cheek; also a bite, a morsel, a mouth-full;
Fr. BOUCHÉE; BUCELLA (dim.) a small bite, a dainty bit, delicate
morsel; hence probably, Ger. "Buss'l" a little kiss and "busseln,"
to spoon, to kiss, in the Southern German dialect
BUCCELLATUM, a biscuit, Zwieback, soldier's bread, hard tack
BULBUS, a bulbous root, a bulb, onion, ℞ 285, 304-8
BULBI FRICTI, ℞ 308
BULLIRE, to boil; Fr. BOUILLIR
BUTYRUM, butter. Was little used in ancient households, except for
cosmetics. Cows were expensive, climate and sanitary conditions
interfered with its use in the Southern kitchen. The Latin butyrum
is said to derive from the German Butter
C
CABBAGE, ℞ 87-92, 103; p. 188
Bavarian, ℞ 87
Ingenious way of cooking, ℞ 88
Chartreuse, ℞ 469
CACABUS, CACCABUS, a cook pot, marmite; see OLLA. Illustrations, pp.
183, 209, 223, 235. Hence: CACCABINA, dish cooked in a caccabus. See
also SALACACCABIA, ℞ 468. I Exc. 470
CAELIUS, see Coelius
CAEPA, CEPA, onion; ---- ARIDA, fresh onion; ---- ROTUNDA, round
onion; ---- SICCA, dry o.; ---- ASCALONICA, young o. "scallion;"
---- PALLACANA or PALLICANA, a shallot, a special Roman variety
Calamary, cuttlefish, ℞ 405, p. 343
CALAMENTHUM, cress, watercress
CALLUM, CALLUS (---- PORCINUM) tough skin, bacon skin, cracklings.
℞ 9, 251, 255
CAMERINUM, town in Umbria, ℞ 3, where Vermouth was made
CAMMARUS MARINUS, a kind of crab-fish, ℞ 43
CANABINUM, CANNABINUM, hemp, hempen
CANCER, crab
Canning, ℞ 23-24
CANTHARUS, illustrations, p. 231; p. 274
CAPON, ℞ 166, 249; CAPONUM TESTICULI, ℞ 166
CAPPAR, caper
CAPPARA, purslane, portulaca
CAPPARUS, CARABUS, ℞ 397
CAPRA, she-goat, also mountain goat, chamois; Ger. GEMSE; ℞ 346-8
Caramel coloring, ℞ 55, 73, 119, 124, 146
CARDAMOMUM, cardamom, aromatic seed
CARDAMUM, nasturtium, cress
Cardoons, ℞ 112-4
CARDUS, CARDUUS, cardoon, edible thistle, ℞ 112-3
Carême, Antonin, The most talented French cook of the post-revolution
period; his chartreuses compared, ℞ 186, p. 35
CARENUM, CAROENUM, wine or must boiled down one third of its volume
to keep it. ℞ 35
CAREUM, CARUM, Carraway
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