SC - Apicius and Platina

[Gretchen M Beck]

Excerpts from internet.listserv.sca-cooks: 6-Feb-100 SC - Apicius and
Platina by Aldyth at aol.com 
> Also, in Platina, the recipe for Meat Roll in a Pot lists putting the
veal in 
>  
> a pot with "far".  Since it lists how to actually cook the dish in the next 
> sentence, I am not disposed to thinking this is a reference to fire, but I 
> could be wrong.  Ideas?

The Mallinkrodt edition has "In a pot put flesh of veal with soft fat
finely cut up"; my guess is that "far" is a typo.

toodles, margaret