Platina skins the frogs, turns them in flour and fries them in oil; he adds fennel flower garnish and SALSA VIRIDA (green sauce, our ravigote or remoulade) on the side. No modern chef could do different or improve upon it. The fennel blossom garnish is a startling stroke of genius Rankin, E. M., writer, see COQUUS RAPA, RAPUM, rape, turnip, navew, ℞ 26, 100-1 RAPHANUS SATIVUS, Horseradish, ℞ 102 Ray, fish, ℞ 403-4 RECOQUO, RECOCTUM, re-heated, warmed-up Redsnapper, ℞ 448 Réduction, ℞ 145, 168 Reference to other parts of the book by Apicius, ℞ 170, 166 Relishes, ℞ 174-5 RENES, ℞ 286 Reynière, Grimod de la ---- writer, p. 3, see MAPPA RHOMBUS, fish, turbot RHUS, a shrub called SUMACH, seed of which is used instead of salt RISUM, rice, also ORYZA. The word RISUM is used by Platina who says: "RISUM, QUOD EGO ANTIQUO VOCABULO ORIZAM APPELLATUM PUTO." This is one of the many philologically interesting instances found in Platina and Aegineta of the evolution of a term from the antique to the medieval Latin and finally emerging into modern Italian. What better proof, if necessary, could be desired than this etymology for the authenticity of the Apicius book? Its age could be proven by a philologist if no other proof were at hand Roasts, Roasting, p. 285, ℞ 266-70 Roman Beauty Apple, ℞ 136 ---- excesses, p. 15 Roman Cook Stove, illustration, p. 182 ---- economic conditions, p. 15 Roman Vermouth, ℞ 3 ROSATUM, ROSATIUM, flavored with roses; ---- VINUM, rose wine, ℞ 4-6; ---- without roses, ℞ 6 Rose pie, see MALUM ROSEUM, also ℞ 136, 171 ---- custard, ℞ 136; ---- pudding, ℞ 136; ---- apple, ℞ 136 Rose wine, ℞ 4-6 ROSMARINUS, rosemary Round sausage, ℞ 65 Roux, ℞ 172, see AMYLARE RUBELLIO, fish, ℞ 447 RUBRA TESTA, red earthen pot RUMEX, sorrel, sour dock, monk's rhubarb, ℞ 24 Rumohr, B., writer, pp. 3, 18 Rumpolt, Marx, cook, cf. Styrio RUTA, rue; ---- HORTENSIS, garden r.; ---- SYLVESTRIS, wild r.; ---- RUTATUS, prepared with r. Rue was very much esteemed because of its stimulating properties Rye, ℞ 99 S SABUCO, see SAMBUCO SACCARUM, SACCHARUM, sugar; distillate from the joints of the bamboo or sugar cane, coming from India, hence called "Indian Salt." It was very scarce in ancient cookery. Honey was generally used in place of sugar. Only occasionally a shipment of sugar would arrive in Rome from India, supposed to have been cane sugar; otherwise cane and beet sugar was unknown in ancient times. Any kind of sweets, therefore, was considered a luxury SAL, salt. Laxative salt, ℞ 29; "For many ills," _ibid._ Sala, George Augustus, writer, p. 38 SALACACCABIA, SALACATTABIA, "salt" food boiled in the "caccabus," ℞ 125-7, 468-70 Salad, ℞ 109-11; ---- dressing, ℞ 112-3; Italian ---- ℞ 122 Salcisse, ℞ 41 SALINUM, salt cellar Salmasius, Codex of ----, see Apiciana, III