Elderberry Patina, Hot or Cold
Origin: Rome, Italy
Source: Apicius, 400
Ingredients
- elderberries (sabucus)
- scruples pepper
- cyathus liquamen (Roman fermented fish sauce)
- cyathus wine
- cyathus passum (raisin wine)
- ounces oil
- eggs
Instructions
- Clean, boil and lightly dry elderberries; arrange in a greased pan.
- Grind 6 scruples pepper with liquamen, then a cyathus each of liquamen, wine and passum.
- Add 4 oz oil to the pan, heat in the embers to a boil.
- Break in 6 eggs, stir to bind; when set sprinkle pepper and serve.