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]
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]