Digestive Sharp Sauce (Oxyporum)
Origin: Rome, Italy
Source: Apicius, 400
Ingredients
- ounces cumin
- ounce ginger
- ounce fresh rue
- scruples natron/soda (nitrum)
- scruples plump dates
- ounce pepper
- ounces honey
- oxygarum (sour fish-sauce)
Instructions
- Steep the cumin in vinegar, dry it, and pound it fine.
- Pound the ginger, rue, natron, dates, and pepper together with the cumin.
- Bind the mixture with 9 oz honey and store.
- When needed, thin with oxygarum (sour fish sauce) and serve as a digestive sauce.