Casserole Apicius With Meat Or Fish

Ingredients

6 eggs
65 gr flour
80 ml milk
80 ml water
350 gr pork
100 gr fish fillets
30 ml olive oil
1 gr pepper
1 gr celery seed
280 gr beef
60 ml wine
60 ml sweet raisin wine muscatel

Instructions

Flour Coarsely ground pepper Pine nuts or almonds First make the pancakes:beat 3 eggs and add flour, milk and water to make a thin batter. Into a greased 20 cm 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 190ºC oven for 2025 minutes until the dish is uniformly heated. Serve with a sprinkling of pepper. Source The Roman Cookery of Apicius