Milanese Sweet Torte

Ingredients

• 200 g lean cooked meat
• 100 g chocolate
• 100 g sugar
• 50 g butter
• 50 g pine nuts
• 50 g sultana raisins
• 25 g candied citron
• 170 g wheat flour
• 80 g cornmeal (maize flour)
• 80 g powdered (icing) sugar
• 70 g butter
• 25 g virgin lard
• 1 egg
• white wine or marsala

Instructions

1. Chop the meat very fine; toast the pine nuts; soak the raisins in marsala and drain.
2. Sauté the meat in the butter until slightly reddish, then cool.
3. Melt the chocolate in a little water, stir in the sugar, and pour over the meat with the pine nuts, raisins and candied citron; mix.
4. Make a short pastry (pasta frolla) from the pastry ingredients.
5. Line a shallow greased tin with pastry, add the filling no higher than a finger, cover with a ridged-rolled top sheet and seal.
6. Gild with egg yolk, bake, and serve cold.