This is an excerpt from Koge Bog
(Denmark, 1616 - Martin Forest, trans.)
The original source can be found at
Martin Forest's website
XCII - A good sauce for steak (roast). Take finely chopped almond. Give thereto grated simle and grate it fine and small together. Make it up with wine and give to it ground cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg. Make it sweet or sour as it suits yourself, and put it out with the roast.