and then separate the meat from the bones, shred or chop
it fine, bind with cream sauce, flour and eggs; some add
potatoes as a binder, and fry.

[1] G.-V. _lolligine_; Tor. _loligine_, which is
correctly spelled.

[2] Tac. and Tor. _in pulmento tundes_. G.-V. _fulmento_
which is wrong. _Pulmentum_, abbreviated for
_pulpamentum_, from _pulpa_. It means a fleshy piece of
fish or meat, a tid-bit.

[3] The original says _in liquamine fricatur_--fry in
l., which is impossible in the sense of the word,
frying. Either "frying" here stands for cooking,
stewing, braising, poaching, or else the so mysterious
_liquamen_ must here mean deep fat. Most likely these
fish forcemeat balls were fried in olive oil. Cf. {Rx}
No. 46.

[43] LOBSTER OR CRABMEAT CROQUETTES
_ISICIA DE SCILLIS VEL DE CAMMARIS AMPLIS_ [1]

THE SHELLS OF THE LOBSTERS OR CRABS [which are cooked] ARE BROKEN, THE
MEAT EXTRACTED FROM THE HEAD AND POUNDED IN THE MORTAR WITH PEPPER AND
THE BEST KIND OF BROTH. THIS PULP [is shaped into neat little cakes
which are fried] AND SERVED UP NICELY [2].

[1] _Scilla_ or _squilla_, squill, sea-onion, also a
crab, _cammarus amplus_, large lobster, langouste, spiny
lobster.

[2] The original omits the mode of cooking the fish. A
case where it is taken for granted that the shellfish is
boiled in water alive. The broth (_liquamen_) is a thick
fish sauce in this case, serving as a binder for the
meat, conforming to present methods.

Dann. Fill this into sausage casing. There is no
authority for this.

[44] LIVER KROMESKIS
_OMENTATA_ [1]

OMENTATA ARE MADE IN THIS MANNER: [lightly] FRY PORK LIVER, REMOVE
SKIN AND SINEWS FIRST [2]. CRUSH PEPPER AND RUE IN A MORTAR WITH [a
little] BROTH, THEN ADD THE LIVER, POUND AND MIX. THIS PULP SHAPE INTO
SMALL SAUSAGE, WRAP EACH IN CAUL AND LAUREL LEAVES AND HANG THEM UP TO
BE SMOKED. WHENEVER YOU WANT AND WHEN READY TO ENJOY THEM TAKE THEM
OUT OF THE SMOKE, FRY THEM AGAIN, AND ADD GRAVY [3].

[1] From _omentum_--caul, the membrane enclosing the
bowels. Hence "omen." Minced meats wrapped in caul and
fried are kromeskis in kitchen terminology.

[2] First--an after thought so characteristic in
culinary literature, proof enough that this formula
originated in a kitchen. The _ante tamen_ of the
original belongs to this sentence, not to the next