Iuscellum falsae testudinis
Iuscellum falsae testudinis[1] (Anglice mock turtle et mock turtle soup; Theodisce Mockturtle) est ferculum artis culinariae Britannicae et Hannoverianae e capite vitulino confectum ut pretiosum iuscellum Cheloniae mydae verum imitetur.
Iam a saeculo XVIII exeunte tabernae pistoriae Londinienses iuscellum falsae testudinis emptoribus offerebant ut cum pane sorberetur,[2] quod Gulielmus Makepeace Thackeray mythistoricus locutione grandiloqua the fragrant potage that mocks the turtle's flavor nuncupavit ("potagium fragrans quod sapori testudinis illudit").[3] E nominis ambiguitate Ludovicus Carroll in opere phantastico Alice's Adventures in Wonderland creaturam quandam mock turtle ("falsam testudinem") finxit: quam pictor Ioannes Tenniel, praecepto culinario ductus, capite pedibusque et cauda vituli ornavit.[4]
Notae
[recensere | fontem recensere]- ↑ Haec appellatio a Vicipaediano e lingua indigena in sermonem Latinum conversa est. Extra Vicipaediam huius locutionis testificatio vix inveniri potest.
- ↑ The cold mock turtle soups ... which London pastry-cooks keep in their shops, ready for immediate use: Hester Lynch Piozzi, Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany (p. 451 editionis Dublinensis 1789 apud Google Books).
- ↑ The savory odors of the Cook Shops tempted the over hungry citizen to the bun of Bath, or to the fragrant potage that mocks the turtle's flavor – the turtle! O dapibus supremi grata testudo Jovis! I am an Alderman when I think of thee! Well: it was noon in Chepe [i.e. Cheapside, vicus mercatorius Londiniensis]: W. M. Thackeray, "Novels by Eminent Hands" in Burlesques vol. 1 p. 3 editionis 1887. De citatione Horatiana cf. Michael Gilleland, "Turtles"
- ↑ "Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?" "No," said Alice. "I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is." "It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from": Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), 137.
Bibliographia
[recensere | fontem recensere]- Eruditio
- "Mock turtle soup", "Sea turtles" in Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food (Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-211579-0); Tom Jaine, ed., 2a ed. 2006; 3a ed. 2014
- "Mock turtle, Mock turtle soup" in The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxonii: Clarendon Press, 1989. 20 voll.)
- S. Tucker, ed., New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories (University Press of Mississippi, 2009. ISBN 978-1-60473-645-8) pp. 87-97
- Praecepta
- 1758 : Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. 6a ed. Londinii (p. 340 apud Google Books) ("To dress a mock turtle")
- 1783 : John Farley, The London Art of Cookery (Londinii) 2a ed. (1784) pp. 144-145 ("Mock-turtle soup")
- 1796 : Amelia Simmons, American Cookery ("To dress a calve's head, turtle fashion") (fide Tucker, ed. (2009) p. 88)
- 1817 : William Kitchiner, Apicius Redivivus, or The Cook's Oracle (Londinii: Bagster) no. 251 ("Mock turtle")
- 1826 : Margaret Dods (i.e. Christiana Isobel Johnstone), The Cook and Housewife's Manual (Edinburgi) pp. 83-85, 225-226 ("Mock turtle soup, Mock turtle or calf's head")
- 1909 : Eleanor L. Jenkinson, The Ocklye Cookery Book: a book of recipes by a lady and her cook (Crowborough: H. Wilkins, 1909)pp. 9-10 ("Mock turtle soup")