[Sca-cooks] originals and redactions, was "All the King's Cooks"

[Terry Decker]

The first question which pops into my mind is, "What is the translation of
"hypotrimma."   (One possibility is "under three years.")

Bear


>Hypotrimma. Pepper, lovage, dry mint, pine nuts, raisins, Jericho
>date, sweet cheese, honey, vinegar, fish sauce,oil, wine, defrutum or
>caroenum
>[Apicius, Book I, Chapter XIX]
>
>First, what it this? It was in a chapter with sauces. But some
>chapters contain a variety of dishes, or the occasional dish that is
>different slips into a chapter. So, is it a sauce, a spread, a savory
>snack? If a sauce, what sort of dish should it accompany? It doesn't
>say...
>
>Anahita