Crossword-Solution: COTTO 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Halted a few minutes under a large tree at the village of Lamain-Cotto, to allow the soldiers to cool themselves; and then proceeded towards _Lamain_, at which place we arrived at four o'clock.

PAN COTTO To make a _Pan Cotto_, as the Cardinals use in Rome, Take much thinner broth, made of the fleshes as above (or of Mutton alone) and boil it three hours, gently and close covered in _una pignata_, with lumps of fine light-bread tosted or dried.

Horace[211] makes use of the word _coticia_ to indicate the nocturnal meetings of the magicians--_Tu riseris coticia_; which he derives from _Cotys_, or _Cotto_, Goddess of Vice, who presided in the assemblies which were held at night, and where the Bacchantes gave themselves up to all sorts of dissolute pleasures; but this is very different from the witches' sabbath.

The victuals served with the bread are: On meat days, raw salt meat (_salame crudo_) in rations of 14 grammes, alternated with cooked salt meat (_salame cotto_) in rations of 20 grammes.[L] On fish days, cheese (either Bernesa or Fontina alternated) in rations of 20 grammes.

The wine is detestable, _vino cotto_ (cooked wine), brought up in goatskins from the valley below on muleback.