Patina of Small Fish and Brains

Ingredients

• small fish (lagitae)
• brains
• hard-boiled eggs
• chicken giblets (gigeria)
• salt-fish (salsum)
• pepper
• lovage
• passum (raisin wine)
• rue
• wheat starch (amulum)

Instructions

1. Fry hard eggs, boil and skin brains, cook chicken giblets.
2. Arrange all (except the fish) in a pan, cooked salt-fish in the middle.
3. Make a sweet peppered sauce with pepper, lovage and passum; pour in and boil.
4. Stir with a rue sprig and thicken with starch.