Elderberry Patina, Hot or Cold

Ingredients

• elderberries (sabucus)
• 6 scruples pepper
• 1 cyathus liquamen (Roman fermented fish sauce)
• 1 cyathus wine
• 1 cyathus passum (raisin wine)
• 4 ounces oil
• 6 eggs

Instructions

1. Clean, boil and lightly dry elderberries; arrange in a greased pan.
2. Grind 6 scruples pepper with liquamen, then a cyathus each of liquamen, wine and passum.
3. Add 4 oz oil to the pan, heat in the embers to a boil.
4. Break in 6 eggs, stir to bind; when set sprinkle pepper and serve.