FULLY TREATED [soaked and cleaned] PLACE IN A PAN, COVER WITH
SUFFICIENT OIL, LAY [strips of] COOKED SALT [4] [pork or
bacon--_petits sales_] OVER THE CENTER, KEEP IT HOT, WHEN REAL HOT,
ADD A DASH OF HONEY WINE TO THE GRAVY AND STIR IT UP [5].

[1] Ex Tor.; G.-V. _P. piscium loco salsi_.

[2] Tor.; sentence wanting in other texts.

[3] Tor. _duratos_--_hard_--no sense here, probably a
misprint of the d. List. _curatos_--carefully treated,
"cured," processed.

[4] _Salsum coctum_, cf. notes to {Rx} No. 148; Goll.,
Dann.--sprinkle [the fish] with salt.... Like Lister's
error in the preceding formula it would be a great
blunder to add salt to a cured fish already saturated
with salt to the utmost. Cf. also note 2 to {Rx} Nos.
41, 148.

[5] Virtually a repetition of {Rx} No. 149, except for
the addition of the pork.

[151] ANOTHER FISH DISH, WITH ONIONS
_ALIA PISCIUM PATINA_

ANOTHER FISH DISH MAKE AS FOLLOWS [1] CLEAN ANY KIND OF FISH AND PLACE
IT PROPERLY IN A SAUCEPAN WITH SHREDDED DRY ASCALONIAN ONIONS
[shallots] OR WITH ANY OTHER KIND OF ONIONS, THE FISH ON TOP. ADD
STOCK AND OIL AND COOK. WHEN DONE, PUT BROILED BACON IN THE CENTER,
GIVE IT A DASH OF VINEGAR, SPRINKLE WITH [finely chopped] SAVORY AND
GARNISH WITH [the] ONIONS.

[1] Tor., sentence wanting in other texts.

[152] A LUCRETIAN DISH
_PATINA LUCRETIANA_ [1]

CLEAN YOUNG ONIONS, REJECTING THE GREEN TOPS, AND PLACE [2] THEM IN A
SAUCEPAN WITH A LITTLE BROTH, SOME OIL AND WATER, AND, TO BE COOKED
[with the onions] PLACE SALT PORK [3] IN THE MIDST [of the scallions].
WHEN NEARLY DONE, ADD A SPOON OF HONEY [4] A LITTLE VINEGAR AND
REDUCED MUST, TASTE IT, IF INSIPID ADD MORE BRINE [broth] IF TOO
SALTY, ADD MORE HONEY, AND SPRINKLE WITH SAVORY [5].

[1] Dann. Named for Lucretius Epicuraeus, a contemporary
of Cicero. List. _ab authore cui in usu fuit sic
appellata_.

[2] G.-V. _concides_. Not necessary.

[3] _salsum crudum_--salt pork, i.e. not smoked or cured
bacon. Dann. raw salt; Goll. salt. Impossible, of
course! Cf. notes to {Rx} Nos. 41, 147, 149.

[4] To glaze the pork, no doubt; reminding us of our own
use of sugar to glaze ham or bacon, and of the molasses
added to pork (and beans).

[5] G.-V. _coronam bubulam_. In experimenting with this
formula omit salt completely. Instead of honey we have
also added maple syrup