Patina de Rosis
(Rose Pie)
According to a Roman cookbook you
take roses from the garden, strip
off leaves, remove the white from the petals and put them in the mortar.
Pour some broth over this and rub fine.Add a glass of broth and strain
the juice through the colander.Take four cooked calves' brains, skin them,and
remove the nerves;crush eight scruples of pepper ,moistened with the juice
and rub with the brains ;thereupon break eight eggs;add one glass of wine
,one glass of raisin wine, and a little oil. Meanwhile grease a pan, place
it on the hot ashes into which pour the above described material; when
the mixture is cooked in the hot-water bath, sprinkle it with pepper and
eat .