Digestive Sharp Sauce (Oxyporum)

Ingredients

• 2 ounces cumin
• 1 ounce ginger
• 1 ounce fresh rue
• 6 scruples natron/soda (nitrum)
• 12 scruples plump dates
• 1 ounce pepper
• 9 ounces honey
• oxygarum (sour fish-sauce)

Instructions

1. Steep the cumin in vinegar, dry it, and pound it fine.
2. Pound the ginger, rue, natron, dates, and pepper together with the cumin.
3. Bind the mixture with 9 oz honey and store.
4. When needed, thin with oxygarum (sour fish sauce) and serve as a digestive sauce.