Baked Polenta Pie

Ingredients

• cornmeal (yellow maize flour)
• milk
• salt
• meat sauce (intingolo)
• balsamella (bechamel)
• grated Parmesan cheese
• butter

Instructions

1. Cook a firm maize polenta in milk, salt it, spread two fingers thick, cool, and cut into thin diamonds.
2. Prepare a meat sauce (intingolo, as for No. 87) and a little balsamella (No. 137).
3. Layer polenta with Parmesan, meat sauce, and balsamella in a heatproof dish, repeating to the top, with a little butter.
4. Brown in a Dutch oven and serve hot as an autumn/winter entremets.