Casserole Apicius With Meat Or Fish Recipe

Casserole Apicius With Meat Or Fish Recipe

Yield: 4 Servings
Recipe by luhu.jp

Ingredients:

FOR PANCAKES
3: Eggs,
1/2 cup: Flour,
1/3 cup: Milk,
1/3 cup: Water,

FOR CASSEROLE
2 1/2 cup: Cooked pork or chicken,
Thinly slice,
Or,
1 1/2 lbs: Cooked fish fillets,
3: Raw eggs,
2 tbsp: Olive oil,
1/2 tsp: Ground pepper,
1/2 tsp: Celery seed, or lovage
2 cup: Beef or chicken stock,
1/4 cup: White wine,
1/4 cup: Sweet raisin wine, muscatel
Flour,
Coarsely ground pepper,
Pine nuts or almonds,

Directions:

First make the pancakes:- beat 3 eggs and add flour, milk and water
to make a thin batter. Into a greased 8 inch frying pan, pour a
little of the batter and allow it to spread evenly. Cook each pancake
over high heat and flip over when it is lightly browned.

Prepare the coked meat or fish:- Mix with eggs, olic=ve oil, celery
seed, stock, white wine and sweet wine. Heat the meats in this sauce,
adding more liquid if requird. Thicken the sauce with flour.

Next, take a greased casserole dish and cover the bottom with a layer
of meats or fish in their sauce. SPrinkle with coarsely ground pepper
and with nuts. On this, place a pancake. Fill the dish with layers of
the sauced meats, seasoned with pepper and nuts, each alternating
with a pancake. Pierce a hole in the final pancake to allow steam to
escape and cooke uncovered in a 375 F oven for 20- 25 minutes until
the dish is uniformly heated. Serve with a sprinkling of pepper.

Source - The Roman Cookery of Apicius


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